Governor of Sindh, Dr. Ishratul Ebad Khan sought speedier completion of the establishment of Pakistan Textile City, next to Port Qasim, in Karachi, yesterday.
He took stock of the progress at a high level meeting at the Governor House to review its progress.
Dr. Ebad said that the textile city will provide increased employment opportunities to the people and about 80,000 people will get jobs.
For proper implementation of the project, he asked the City Government, Sindh Board of Revenue and Port Qasim besides Textile City Board to coordinated their efforts.
The Governor directed officials to make provisions for 300 acres of land for establishing a Garment City adjacent to the Textile City and 500 acres of land for employees residence.
Federal Minister for Textiles, Mushtaq Cheema, Chairman Port Qasim Authority, Vice Admiral Muhammad Asad Qureshi, Federal Textile Secretary, Masood Alam Rizvi, City Nazim, Mustafa Kamal, Chairman Pakistan Textile City Limited, Deewan Yousuf Farooqui, Directors S.M. Muneer, Abdur Razzaq, Zafar Iqbal and Chief Executive Zaheer Hussain and other officials attended the meeting.
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