Sindh Minister for Labour, Transport, Industries and Commerce Mohammad Adil Siddiqui said on Monday that government is focussing to set up small and medium industries in interior Sindh to provide maximum opportunities of employment to local people.
"It is the responsibility of local industrialists to put forward their recommendations to the government for promotion of industries in undeveloped localities", he added. He further said that only way to overcome the problems of poverty and unemployment was to establish small industries where unskilled people could also find opportunity to work.
Adil Siddiqui said that Sindh government had established more than 16 small industrial estates and three industrial parks through the Sindh Small Industries Corporation in various cities and towns of the province.
"Small industrial estates had been established at 50 acre-areas in districts of Thatta and Badin where government is fully concentrating for the provision of all the possible facilities", he said adding Sindh government was further contemplating to implement new suggestions given by local industrialists.
He said that as many as 36 industries were working in Thatta district only, while only 4 industries had been working there four years ago. Adil Siddiqui said that he already had directed to develop Small Industrial Estate in Badin. He further said that industrialists could bring the happiness in the Badin district for setting up food processing and packaging industries for its famous crops including tomato, rice, melon, mustard and soybean which would not only help in reducing poverty but also unemployment.
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