ISLAMABAD, Jan 21 (APP):Chairman Board of Investment (BOI) Syed Zubair Gilani on Tuesday said the government was committed to improve the business regulation for providing the enabling business environment to promote Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) were the backbone of the economy to generate the new jobs in the country, he said this while addressing a press conference here.
Zubair Gilani was flanked by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan .
While announcing abolishing the license condition for 70 different business procedures, he said the government had provided a conducive business environment for promoting the SMEs culture and enhancing small businesses at district level.
He said after the execution of this process, 100 businesses would get benefits in local market to provide new opportunities to small businesses in the country.
He said all these procedure for small business would help increasing connectivity to the small businesses at national level.
He said that through the modern technological intervention, the government wanted to improve the business regulation for Ease of Doing Business (EODB) in all four provinces.
Zubair said that initially Pakistan had achieved huge mile stone of improving the World Bank (WB) ranking from 136 to 108.
The Chairman BOI said that all the provinces were in good coordination for improving the business regulation to promote the small business and to flourish the local economy.
In that regards, Punjab and Khyber Paktunkkwa (KPK) had played better role for improving the business facilitation at district level, he added.
Zuabair said that priority of the government was to improve governance structure and transparency through modern mechanism in order to enhance the capacity of the institutions.
He said the government had prioritized the local investors and give them opportunity for investment within the country for starting the new businesses.
