Development Programme 2013-18: Authority targets to add 10m jobs

LAHORE: The five-year Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development Programme 2013-18 evolved by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) has been included in the government Vision 2025. Smeda has decided to implement the first phase under the current annual plan chalked out for the year 2014-15, said Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Alamgir Chaudhry. While addressing the members of Lahore Economic Journalists Association (LEJA), he informed that the body had structured its current annual plan in accordance with the priorities of the government for SME development in the country. Therefore, to implement the first phase of the five-year SME Development Plan, the Umbrella PC-1 for cluster development projects has been submitted to the government on priority basis, as the planning commission has allocated Rs1 billion for the projects.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 21^st, 2014.

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