Speakers at a workshop have emphasized the need for changing the mindset and culture within the government departments. Punjab Planning & Development Department in collaboration with the World Bank organized a day long training executive workshop on "Fundamentals of Investment Climate" here on Saturday as a part of efforts to build the capacity of the civil servants.
Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan, Chairman Planning & Development Punjab, while addressing the workshop highlighted the importance of making investment climate conducive to attract private investments. He further highlighted the importance of investor protection and observed that quantum shift in the approach of civil servants was required in order to improve the business environment of the province.
Planning & Development Department mobilized leading international resource persons from World Bank to conduct this training who gave insightful and informative presentations followed by interactive sessions. These resource persons included Senior Private Sector Development Specialists and Senior Economists of the World Bank. Secretary P&D Iftikhar Ali Sahoo, Members P&D Board Agha Waqar Javed, Khalid Sultan, Sadaqat Hussain, Chief Economist P&D Dr Aman Ullah, Director General M&E Dr Sajjad Mubeen, provincial administrative secretaries, Divisional Commissioners, CEOs of public sector companies and other high officials also attended the workshop.
Addressing the workshop, Iftikhar Ali Sahoo, Secretary P&D informed the participants that P&D Department has planned series of such trainings/workshops to be organized at regular intervals for the civil servants with the help of World Bank. All the participants actively participated in the workshop and urged to organize such type of capacity building workshops more frequently. In the workshop, World Bank representatives gave detailed presentation on investment life cycle from the government perspective.
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