Cutlery Industry: Rs39.5 million allocated for training

Provincial government releases a special grant of Rs39.5 million for the upgrade of Sialkot’s cutlery industry.


Ppi December 28, 2010

SIALKOT: The provincial government has released a special grant of Rs39.5 million for the upgrade of Sialkot’s cutlery industry.

These funds would be used by the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority to provide training to the labour force. This was stated by SMEDA Punjab chief Alamgir Chaudhary while addressing the representatives of the industry at a meeting. He said the authority would soon start work on setting up a Cutlery Cluster Centre at Wazirabad. Cutlery Association president Muhammad Khalid Mughal suggested that experts from China should be invited to provide training to the labour force. He said such programmes would help the industry in reducing cost of production. He said that a model manufacturing unit be established at Wazirabad with public-private collaboration. He said that during the last quarter of 2010 cutlery export had come down from USD 100million to USD 60 million due to lack of government support. He said government should declare Wazirabad as the city of cutlery.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 28th, 2010.

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