F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government under Economic Zones Development and Management Company (KP-EZDMC), Sunday launched a digital mobile app in order to make services of the company easily accessible to investors and industrialists.
The launching of the digital mobile app is being considered a milestone towards the facilitation of investors and industrialists as the required services, facilities and information of the company would now be available on it.
With this initiative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become the first province of the country, which has introduced such a unique kind of comprehensive and useful app for industrialization in the public sector. The app was formally launched by the KP Caretaker Minister for Industries, Commerce, Technical Education and newly merged districts affairs Dr. Aamer Abdullah at the headquarters of KP-EZDMC, while Chief Executive Officer (CEO) KP-EZDMC, Javed Iqbal Khattak, other senior management of the company was also present on the occasion.
It is worth mentioning here that the Provincial Caretaker Minister for Industries, Commerce and Technical Education, Dr. Aamer Abdullah had assigned this task of online availability of the services to the company, which has been achieved by the IT section of the company within a short period of two weeks.
Addressing the launching ceremony of the app, the Provincial Minister appreciated the performance of the management and whole team of the company and termed it a visible step towards the facilitation of industrialists and investors of the industrial sector in the province.
He said that through this project, the public sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has taken a lead over other provinces of the country, for which he said the whole team of the KP-EZDMC deserves appreciation. The provincial minister directed making the digital online facility efficient and accessible with the passage of time, wherein all required services and information regarding industries and investment are available. The minister further directed for the inclusion of app use in existing by-laws of the company as a compulsory segment. He said that the app should also have complete data of vacant plots in all economic zones of the province and make the attractive incentives easily accessible to intending investors and gave a deadline of one week to the company for the completion of the task.
On this occasion, the provincial minister was told that in the first phase, the digital app would be available only on Android phones and after a few weeks, its availability would also be guaranteed on apple.
He was told that basically the required information regarding the company and two aspects of the required services from the company have been included in the app while industrial facilitation, industrial projects, latest information, assistance & cooperation and means for knowing feedback have also been included in it. In a similar way the intending investors could also submit an online application for the plot.
Meanwhile, the caretaker minister also presided over a meeting regarding matters relating to the affairs of the newly established economic zone in Chitral. During the meeting, the provincial minister was informed in detail regarding the completion of the concerned economic zone and issues relating to the provision of electricity to it.
The provincial minister was told that Chitral Economic Zone is fully ready for industrialization wherein 35 plots have already been allotted. However, it required provision of electricity as soon as possible. In this connection, he was told that a proposal of the provision of one megawatt green energy is under consideration, which for time-being is sufficient for several years.
In this connection, the caretaker minister directed the management of the company to review all technical aspects of this model and after completion of feasibility, present it to the board of directors for implementation.
