Buzdar for devising CPEC-related strategy

The Punjab government has decided to devise an effective strategy for the CPEC and Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar directed the line departments that CPEC-related strategy should be given final shape as soon as possible. Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired a meeting at his office on Tuesday in which various proposals regarding promotion of economic activities and generation of job opportunities were reviewed. The future roadmap in the backdrop of meetings held on the occasion of visit of the Chinese Vice President also came under discussion, sources said.
Addressing the meeting, the CM said that CPEC Cell should be made more effective and expanded in the P&D department and Chinese collaboration would be further utilized in different sectors including vocational training, agriculture, education, and energy. "China has made unprecedented steps for overcoming the poverty issue and the Punjab government will benefit from this Chinese model to check poverty," he said. He added that the CPEC is a golden opportunity for the durable development of Punjab and the rest of the country and it would be fully benefited upon.
He said that Chinese investors will be given all sort of facilities in Punjab for investment. He said the Punjab government is setting up special economic zones and Chinese investment in these zones will be welcomed. He said that CPEC will promote economic activities which will generate new employment opportunities.
There is a great demand for skilled labor and it is needed to give special attention to technical and vocational training to fulfill this demand. Human development has been focused in the new Pakistan, he added.
The Chief Minister was given a briefing about the generation of new job opportunities. Provincial Minister for Finance Hashim Jawan Bakhat, Economic Advisor Dr Salman Shah, Chief Secretary, Chairman P&D and others attended the meeting.
Moreover, Sardar Usman Buzdar has congratulated the cabinet committee on law and order for making best security arrangements on the occasion of martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali (RA) and said that this day has passed peacefully due to the best arrangements made by police and administration.
"I extend congratulations to Law Minister Raja Basharat, other ministers, police and administrative officers for their wonderful arrangements. The line departments, as well as the police, have diligently performed duties and their performance is praiseworthy for maintaining the law and order in the province," he added.