LAHORE, Jun 18 (NNI): Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PCMEA) Senior Vice Chairman Usman Ashraf said that they sent viable proposals to the government with great effort and good intentions, but unfortunately, none of the proposals were included in the budget for the next financial year.
He said that the current financial year has seen a continuous decrease in exports and due to the lack of any relief in the new budget, the trend of decrease will continue in the next financial year as well.
He further said that the government has set a target of 30 billion dollars for exports in the next financial year, but this is not in accordance with the ground realities.
He expressed these views while addressing the review meeting organized in the office of the association. Chairman of Carpet Training Institute Ejazur Rahman, senior central leader Abdul Latif Malik, Riaz Ahmed, Parvez Hanif, Saeed Khan, Major (R) Akhtar Nazir, Shahid Hasan, Kamran Razi, Umair Usman and others were also present in the meeting.
The participants of the meeting expressed their concern over not including the recommendations of export-related organizations in the budget presented by the government and demanded that these suggestions be made a part of the budget before the final approval from the National Assembly.
Usman Ashraf said that in the current situation, export is the only tool that can support our economy; therefore, the increase in export of every sector is inevitable.
