Pakistan - Deal Signed To Enhance Textile Competitiveness

National Productivity Organization (NPO) Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Textile here on Monday signed an agreement of Rs. 9.2 million for making Textile Sectors competitive and improving its quality in the international markets.

Federal Minister for Textile Industry, Makhdoom Shahabuddin also witnessed the agreement signing ceremony.

CEO-NPO Khawaja Muhammad Yousuf and Secretary Ministry of Textile, Shahid Rashid inked the deal with firm commitment to establish quality standards within textile industry.

The basic objective of the project will be to benchmark textile sectors like Ginning, Knit Processing, Knit Stitching. With the implementation of this project current level of competitiveness in comparison with the international industries especially of Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam etc will be determined.

Thus study will highlight the factors affecting competitiveness of the sectors and will help the textile policymakers as well as industrialists in preparing the future line of action for the industry.

National Productivity Organization (NPO) has already implemented benchmarking systems for various sectors in the past. With the implementation of this project the expert teams of NPO will be mandated to inculcate best practices and monitor them for a predefined time frame in order to ensure quality balance.

For this purpose foreign experts have also paid visits to Pakistan and disseminated Total Productivity Maintenance among industrialists and productivity practitioners.