Islamabad: Sheikh Amir Waheed, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry has called upon the government to finalize Federal Budget 2018-19 in consultation with private sector to make it inclusive financial bill. He said this while addressing a session organized by Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in collaboration with ICCI to hold discussion on improving the parliamentary hearing process for formulating inclusive economic and other policies. He said major chambers of commerce & industry of the country were sending budget proposals every year to the government, but most of them were not included in the final budget that was unfortunate.
He said the role of national assembly’s standing committees on commerce & textile, finance revenue & economic affairs, industry and production, energy and others was vital to make inclusive laws and policies and stressed that representative of business community should be called to the meetings of these standing committees so that they could present the voice of private sector in the lawmaking process. He said for inclusive economic policies and laws, government must ensure maximum participation of private sector in parliamentary hearing process and system.
Muhammad Naveed Senior Vice President and Nisar Mirza Vice President ICCI thanked the representatives of CRSS for organizing session on improving parliamentary hearing system and hoped that the suggestions given by the business community would be made part of final recommendations for the government. Baser Daud, Mehmood Ahmed Warraich, Khalid Chaudhry, Nasir Chaudhry, Ms. Nasira Ali, Dildar Abbasi, Abbas Hashmi and others also spoke at the occasion and provided useful feedback to bring improvements in the parliamentary hearing process.
