LCCI urges government to help resolve issues of goods transporters

The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) have urged the government to address genuine reservations of transporters in the larger interest of trade, industry and economy.

While addressing a delegation of Public & Goods Transport Alliance (PGTA), led by its Chairman Azmatullah Niazi, LCCI President Irfan Iqbal Sheikh said that justified demands of the goods transporters should be met by the government and issues should be resolved through negotiations. LCCI office bearers and Convener of Standing Committee on Goods and Transport Tanveer Ahmad Jutt also spoke on the occasion.

He said that transport sector of Pakistan is providing employment to millions of people and is one of the major sources of revenue for the national exchequer. He urged government to take the stakeholders on board for redressing the genuine issues of goods transporters at the earliest. The Lahore Chamber is taking various steps for the sake of trade and industry, he said.

Earlier, PGTA Chairman Azmatullah Niazi said that government should accept transporters' genuine demands. The transport industry cannot afford massive increase in rates of fines on various violations on highways and motorways. He said that old method of route permit should be restored besides making the issuance of driving license easier and stakeholders should be taken on board while taking decisions in this regard. The transport sector wants to play its role in economic development, therefore the government needs to take friendly measures, he added.