Ministry of Industries to support NPO to enhance productivity.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Industries and Production Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi has stressed the need to improve productivity and competitiveness to remain competitive both in local and global markets. Special Assistant made these remarks during his visit to National Productivity Organization (NPO) head office here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, he recognised the critical role of NPO for improving competitiveness and productivity in industry, service sector and effective public governance. He assured that the Ministry of Industries and Production would support NPO it in its efforts to enhance the productivity. Earlier, CEO NPO Muhammad Alamgir Chaudhry briefed the Special Assistant to Prime Minister regarding mandate, services offered and different projects of NPO Pakistan and APO (Japan). He informed that APO, Japan and NPO Pakistan are closely working together for productivity improvement in Pakistan. APO is playing major role to promote productivity drive in the region. APO's services are reorienting the requirements of the current era of competitiveness both in the domestic and global markets and support export sectors in enhancing competitiveness and yielding higher productivity culture in the country, he added. CEO NPO explained that rise in production costs is a serious issue due to which our products cannot...