Small industrial estates: Rs 170 million to be spent on infrastructure

Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) has evolved a comprehensive plan for the improvement of infrastructure in existing small industrial estates functioning across Punjab, said Managing Director PSIC, Farhan Aziz Khawaja. Talking to Business Recorder in Sialkot the other day, he further said that during current fiscal year more than Rs 170 million would be spent on infrastructure programme in the province.
Under the programme Rs 7.40 crore would be spent on the improvement of roads and drains etc in small industrial estates-1 and small industrial estate-2 in Gujranwala, he said. The managing director PSIC further said last year special attention was paid on the improvement of mini industrial estate Daska adding that more than 80 percent development work on roads and drains has been completed while remaining 20 percent work would be accomplished within three months.
Apart from this, PSIC had also established cluster development centre for Agriculture Implement Development Centre in mini industrial estate Daska to facilitate the business community engaged with manufacturing agriculture tools, he said. He further said that Daska is a hub of agri-tools and producing quality agricultural machinery and this cluster centre set up in mini estate Daska would help the manufacturers engaged with agriculture machinery production to further improve the quality of machinery.