Efforts under way for country's progress: FCCI

Rana Sikandar-e-Azam, senior vice president Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI), has said that FCCI is making strenuous efforts to put Pakistan on the road to progress and prosperity with the active collaboration of the business community of Faisalabad.
He was addressing a joint meeting of the FCCI Standing Committee of Foundry & Textile Engineering and Standing Committee on Agriculture and Allied Engineering here Saturday. It was also attended by Mr. Jalil Ahmed Malik Chairman FCCI Standing Committee on Foundry and Textile Engineering and Amjad Ali Amjad Chairman FCCI Standing Committee on Agriculture and Allied Engineering in addition to 30 participants from the concerned sectors.
Rana Sikandar-e-Azam termed the Foundry and Agriculture as the basic and fundamental industry of Pakistan towards repaid industrialization. He specially appreciated the efforts of Vice President Engineer Ahmed Hassan and said that he is taking keen interest in the overall development of these sectors. Rana Sikandar urged upon the participants to cooperate with him so that he could resolve the issues confronted by these important segments of the national economy.
Engineer Ahmed Hassan underlined the importance of the youth for the speedy and scientific development of foundry industry in Pakistan and said that it has made tremendous progress at the international level but we are still sticking to the century old technology. He said that the old guards should realize that introduction of new technology in foundry industry is imperative to improve the productivity as well as quality of their products and for this propose latest technologies should be introduced in our foundries and manufacturing units.
He also urged upon the participants to introduce better management practices in their units to ensure optimum utilization of available resources, energy and human forces. He said that we should invest in the training of our workers in order to improve their skills which will ultimately give us benefits in the form of the production of high quality products. He said that he will organize training workshop for the efficient workers at local level in addition to sending them abroad for training proposes.
He said that this phase should be completed immediately so that we could harvest the maximum benefits of CPEC. Continuing Engineer Ahmed Hassan said that China is getting 80 mounds per acre yield of wheat with mechanized farming whereas our production is hardly 35 to 50 mounds.