Govt focusing on export competitiveness through energy efficiency: NPO CEO.

LAHORE -- The government is focused on improving industrial productivity through efficient and optimum use of resources to reduce the input cost, so that Pakistani products could remain competitive in the global market.

National Productivity Organisation (NPO) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Muhammad Alamgir Chaudhry disclosed this while addressing an awareness seminar on 'Implementation of Energy Efficiency Improvement - Competitive Reinforcement Initiative', here at a local hotel on Tuesday.

He highlighted the ways and means to handle the challenges faced by the industry in enhancing industrial productivity. He said that increased industrial productivity was possible through efficient and optimum use of resources.

Alamgir Chaudhry was of the view that local industry needed to focus and improve three major areas including human resource, energy efficiency and technology in its procedures, operations and management systems. The improvement of these three vital areas would definitely help increase productivity at a competitive input cost, thus enabling Pakistani mercantile to achieve a niche in the international market, he added.

Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) Managing Director Asif Ali Farrukh said that the provincial government had started Competitive Reinforcement Initiative (CRI) with the prime objective to provide technical and other support to medium and export-oriented industry as to how these could compete in the international market. 'In this innovative project, we have at first focused four industrial clusters i.e. auto parts, footwear, surgical and supports. In this connection, we have held awareness sessions for representatives of these industrial units,' he...