‘Industrial sector: immediate steps needed to enhance productivity’

FAISALABAD: The organized industrial sector in Pakistan is not giving optimum production and we must take immediate measures to enhance its productivity to the maximum level, said Dr Arslan Ghani and Dr Abdullah Umer Mian, Pakistani Origin Researchers based in UK. They visited the R&D Section of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI) and had detailed deliberation with its Chairman Engineer Ahmad Hassan. They said that improvement in industrial sector at the global level was a continuous process but in Pakistan it is facing stagnation.

“Few large-scale industrial units acquired latest technologies to improve their quality but they failed to transfer this technology at the grass roots level,” they said and added that they are providing consultancy to the more than 180 leading industrial units of the world. They said that they could also offer similar services to the Pakistani industrialists at a much cheaper rate. Engineer Ahmad Hassan said that few years ago R&D Section had identified ten major issues but successive governments failed to overcome these irritants and hence our economy was in deep crisis.

He said that industrialization is imperative to attain the economic autarky and we must reorganize our industrial sector on modern scientific lines by using the artificial intelligence.

Engineer Ahmad Hassan expressed concern over the high cost of electricity and said that government must take bold decisions to check wastage and theft of electricity instead of enhancing its tariff. He said that governments in the garb of harsh decisions follow the easiest path of increasing electricity rates instead of checking power pilferage only to keep intact their vote bank. He assured Dr Arslan Ghani and Dr Abdullah Umer Mian to support them to start consultancy services in Pakistan in order to enhance the overall industrial productivity.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2023