Several Pakistani and foreign industries have started construction work, says Asim Bajwa
PHOTO: COURTESY/@AsimSBajwa
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa has said that the development work on Allama Iqbal Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Faisalabad is in full swing.
He said that the saleable land in the SEZ was 2,276 acres whereas 33% of it has been purchased by 69 investors so far, he wrote on his official Twitter handle on Monday.
Allama Iqbal SEZ (Fsd)Dev work in full https://t.co/sipigjMeSy saleable land 2276 acres.33% land purchased by 69 investors so far.182 acres purchased by 7 foreign investors. Several Pakistani/ foreign Industries have started construction #cpecmakingprogress#PakistanMovingForwardpic.twitter.com/c3UnaV84Pl
Daily Times
May 2, 2021
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has announced to increase the minimum monthly wages of workers from Rs17,500 to Rs20,000 on the occasion of the World Labour Day.
Presiding over a high-level meeting on Saturday, the chief minister said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has increased the minimum wage of workers by Rs5,000 in the last three years.
The chief minister said the marriage grant for workers has been increased from Rs100,000 to Rs200,000 and death grant from Rs500,000 rupees to Rs600,000.
He bashed that former rulers paid no attention to the welfare of workers and did not take any step in providing relief to this indigent class. He mentioned that former rulers added only Rs3,000 in the minimum wage of the labourers in their last five years tenure.
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PM vows to complete CPEC project at all costs
Imran calls for focusing on export-oriented and import-substitution industrialization
Prime Minister Imran Khan. PHOTO: RADIO PAKISTAN
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed satisfaction on the pace of work on ongoing schemes under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and reiterated his government’s resolve to complete mega project at all cost. Chairing a high level meeting to review progress on CPEC, the flagship project of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Imran said that CPEC was a testimony of the time-tested and deep-rooted Pak-China friendship and “will continue to take pre-eminence in our development strategy”.