PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to KP CM on Commerce and Industry, Abdul Monim Khan, has urged the authorities of the Economic Revitalisation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (ERKF) and FATA for immediate release of the grants approved for the crisis-hit SMEs under the project.
He issued these directives while presiding over a meeting regarding ERKF Project here in the Regional Office of the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) here on Wednesday.
Besides, Provincial Chief, SMEDA, Javed Iqbal Khattak, Project Director, ERKF, Munir Gul Khan and other concerned officials of the SMEDA also attended the meeting.
Speaking on the occasion, the special assistant said that terrorism and devastated floods of 2010 have played havoc with the business activities in the province. He said that the provincial government is keen in provision of maximum relief to the crisis-hit SMEs of the province and for this purpose, the ERKF project was launched.
He directed the removal of all hurdles in the way of the release of the grants’ cheques to the affected SMEs in the province.
Earlier, the Provincial Chief, SMEDA, Javed Iqbal Khattak gave detailed briefing on the project to the special assistance and steps initiated under the authority for the promotion of small and medium entrepreneurship and revival of the sick industrial units in the province.
