Textile Industry Minister Chaudhry Mushtaq Ali Cheema has said that the Government is conscious of the issues of women development and is fully committed to the enhancement of the status of women on the grounds of equity and equality. Inaugurating the two-month Stitching Machine Operators Training (SMOT) Prograqmme at Chenab Limited, which was jointly organised by the Textile Garments Skill Development Board and Ministry of Textile Industry, he announced that 75% quota be Given to Women for this jod-oriented programme.

He urged the textile sector to focus to focus on value addition to yield maximum bendfit of textile package, which would be implementing with the total cost of Rs 25 billion. Federal Minister further asked industrialists and exporters to do research and study the world trends to increase competitiveness of their goods to get better share of the world market.

He further said that textile industry was the core industry and the textile vision 2005 adopted by the government had provided substantial development to the sector. Country’s apparel industry was currently faced with many formidable challenges such as shortage of skilled labour, technology advancement and a cut-throat competition in the global market. He hoped that our apparel industry should develop their human resource in an effective manner by providing their workers on-job-training to cope with the fast changing apparel fashion scenario in the world and upcoming challenges to the apparel industry.