CEO Pakistan Textile City Ltd, Zaheer A. Hussain has said that the land mafia would not be allowed to get land leased in the proposed textile city and vowed to allocate land through transparent process. Zaheer Hussain was replying to questions raised during the meeting with textile industrialists at PHMA House on Friday.
He apprised that a labour colony on a 500-acre plot would be built nearby. He said that negotiations with the utility providers were underway to fix them on reasonable rates for the textile industry. Regarding relief on the utility charges, he said that imposition of utility charges was not by the administration, however, the government was holding talks in this regard with various utility providers to fix reasonable rates for the industries.
Zaheer reiterated that the government would leave no stone unturned to foil attempts by the land-grabbers vigorously making efforts to lease land in the textile city pretending as an industrialist.
Dispelling the impression, he said that so far no land in the textile city was allotted to any one, nor land rates had been fixed for lease, adding he said that land in the city would be allotted on 45 years lease with per month charges.
"The idea behind the textile city is not to earn profit, but to promote industries and make the project successful," he maintained. He pledged to provide one-window facility to industrialists for depositing utility charges, adding that establishment of a bus route to the textile city was under consideration. However he admitted that no in-depth study on it so far has been done.
Earlier, Saleem Parekh, Chairman PHMA S/B zone, expressed his view during the meeting pertaining to hosiery manufacturing its growth and export ratio. He apprised that value-added industry was badly suffering due to various reasons, which put a negative impact on its growth and export when other regional countries were thriving.
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