The Business Community of Multan on Saturday hailed the launching of vision 2025 and described it a right step to transform the country into an economically strong and prosperous nation and enhance exports to US 150 billion dollars by 2025. In a statement issued here, Khawaja Muhammad Usman President of Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) said that the country required economic revolution for which the Vision 2025 has provided the base.
He appreciated the road map to enhance country's exports to 150 billion dollars by 2025 and hoped that this would lay the foundation for a stronger and prosperous Pakistan. Implementation of this long-term development plan has the potential to put Pakistan on sustainable economic growth as well as improve its global competitiveness and bring prosperity to the country, he said. Khawaja Usman said the implementation is the real issue to realise the benefits of the proposed vision.
Otherwise, it would become a document only. He said that the ministries and the concerned division should be taken on board while making the Vision 2025 as the implementation would be materialised by them. He also said provinces also need to be taken on board as they have become the real players in country's economy after the 18th amendment and several subjects have been devolved to the provinces.
Under the environment of decentralisation, the implementation of the 2025 vision will be an uphill task. The capacity of planning commission has eroded manifold over the years and with huge decay of manpower in the planning commission it seems a mission impossible to work out the vision and its implementation in letter and spirit.