Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (Smeda) on Sunday prepared a strategy to modernise sports goods industry especially the soccer ball manufacturing sector enabling it to cope with new challenges of global market.
This was stated by Alamgir Choudhary, Provincial Chief, Smeda while talking to APP here on Sunday evening.
He said under the programme Sports Industries Development Centre (SIDC) costing Rs 272. 61 million would be set up shortly in Sialkot.
Apart from this, Product Development Centre for Composite, Training Institute for Sportswear and Testing Centres for Sportswear and Personal Proactive Equipment projects were in pipeline, he said.
Under the plan, he said, Sports Industries Development Centre (SIDC) will introduce thermo-bonded ball technology in Sialkot industry.