Unisame appreciated on Sunday the role of Smeda and requested the CEO of Smeda to provide the figures of Small Entrepreneurs and Medium Entrepreneurs separately as the participants expressed themselves that the problems of the Small were different and not similar to the Medium entrepreneurs.
They also requested Smeda to undertake and prepare list of SMEs occupation-wise and area-wise and categorise them according to their investments.
The Union of Small & Medium Enterprises (Unisame) had convened a meeting of its Managing Committee to apprise them about the SME Task Force (SME-TF).
A question answer session was held and its President Zulfikar Thaver answered the questions of the MC members.
The SME Task Force has been constituted by virtue of a notification issued by the Ministry of Industries & Production (MoI&P) and the secretary MoIP is the chairman and there are 23 members, the Joint Secretaries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Finance, Commerce, MoI&P, Planning, Economic Adviser to Ministry of Finance, the Chief Executive of the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda), the Additional Secretaries of all the four provinces, the vice chairman of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), the Deputy Governor of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the presidents of Karachi, Quetta, Lahore, Sarhad Chamber of Commerce & Industries, the president of the Federation of Chamber of Commerce, the representatives of Small Industries Association, Unisame and representatives of Smeda Board of Directors.
Smeda is the secretariat of the SME Task Force.
The first meeting of the TF was held on 6th April 2004 and four working committees were formed namely Business Environment with Noman Wazir as its chairperson and Shahzad Alam as the chairperson of Access to Resources, the
finance committee is chaired by Shaukat Tareen and the feedback, valuation &
monitoring committee has Zulfikar Thaver as its chairperson.
The task of the force is to consult stakeholders, propose the policy and to finalise the SME policy. In answer to the questions put forward by the participants in the meeting
of Unisame, the need of SME policy was explained and the urgent need of planning and programming and implementation was stressed.
Any policy cannot be framed until and unless you know the impediments, the road blocks, the resources available to overcome the different setbacks and difficulties in the promotion of SMEs. The policy makers will study each and every aspect and suggest and propose measures and remedies for the upliftment of SMEs.
Unisame thanked the MoI&P for the setting up of the Task Force and assured the government of full support.-PR
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