Lahore: The Businessmen Panel (BMP) on Sunday said that today National Chamber of the Country known as Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry are losing its identity in the public sector as well as in international bodies due to lack of business plan.
BMP Vice Chairman, Sheikh Aslam and Secretary General (Punjab) Mian M Usman Zulfiqar in a joint statement said from the last almost four years, FPCCI converted into public relations company, the federation is least interested to play its viable role for the formulation of policies through the government.; that’s why we don’t seen Federation Chambers anywhere which is a matter of great concern for the business community of this country.
The leaders of the Businessmen Panel said since the start of 2018 the FPCCI closed its Quetta Regional Office, similarly the Regional Office of Peshawar facing acute shortage of staff and even no alternative of the electricity in time of load shedding. The Vice President FPCCI KPK doesn’t even bother to come in its Regional Office Peshawar, so how they can solve the problems of KPK traders and industrialists.
On the other hand the Research and Development (R&D) department of the FPCCI is lacking with the professional expertise. Today Head of R&D of the FPCCI was before the PSO of the President, so you can imagine the quality work of its R&D. Yet we don’t see any research papers and any comparative study on any subject which is linked with the economy of Pakistan. They said.
If you talk about the budget proposals, in the Ishaq Dar tenure not the single recommendation of the FPCCI was taken care; but after every budget the FPCCI is bound to please the government efforts regarding budget due to its vested interest. Is this the role of national chamber of any country; they questioned?
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