SIALKOT – There is a great scope of growth for garments industry in Sialkot city which produces the world’s 40 percent quality martial arts garments, and that exports of Sialkot-based garments could be enhanced to worth Rs12 billion from Rs8 billion, an industrialists’ body said.
Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) Central Chairman Ejaz A Khokhar said the growth of Sialkot’s value-added garments industry could be possible through early solution to the problems being faced by the industry.
He added that the provision of middle management and trained & skilled labour is vital for expansion of garments industry. Only trained and skilled labour could save garments industry.
He said that early establishment of a garments training institution and an international-standard textile industry at Sialkot was need of the hour. The government should make efforts for boosting the industry, he demanded. Garments exporters should also focus on enhancing the exports of garments to the global challenges of WTO and now GSP Plus through increasing the quality of export products.
