Lahore-Gujranwala Motorway To Connect Regional Industries

ISLAMABAD:
The Lahore-Gujranwala motorway project, costing Rs6 billion, will play a vital role in the development of Gujranwala's local industry, a key trade representative said on Sunday.

The Lahore-Gujranwala motorway will not only connect the local industrial zone to the rest of the industrial cities of the country with highways and other routes, but will also provide transport facilities to the local population, President of the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Umar Ashraf Mughal told APP in an exclusive interview.

He said the motorway will connect Gujranwala and Sialkot - the two biggest industrial cities of the country – and would mutually benefit the industrial units at the local level.

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The project is being executed on a public-private partnership (PPP) model as the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) also provided funds whereas the government has also provided support for land acquisition.

“Gujranwala has huge potential for light and heavy engineering goods at local level which “we can use to increase domestic exports.”

Umar said that by increasing production in the engineering goods and steel industry in Gujranwala, “we need to attain the objective Ease of Doing Business (EODB) for lowering the cost of doing business to achieve competitiveness in the international market.