Awareness of BFC services termed essential for local entrepreneurs

Rawalpindi:Additional Commissioner Coordination Syed Nazarat Ali on Wednesday underlined the need for awareness about the services being provided by Business Facilitation Centre (BFC) for the convenience of the business community.

Add’l Commissioner expressed these views while presiding over a review meeting on the performance of BFC. Heads from RDA, PHA, BFC and RWMC, and representatives officers from Industries, IESCO, Forests, Sui Gas and other departments participated in the meeting. He said that the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) play its active role regarding BFC.

He said that the aim of setting up the center is to provide all the facilities under one roof to the entrepreneurs without visiting different departments to get NOC.

"The departments should forward the received applications to the centre so that they can be processed swiftly ", he said. While giving a briefing regarding the performance of the centre, Manager BFC, Syeda Rida Sultan said that 17 departments including Local Government, Environment, Energy, Livestock, RDA, Punjab Food Authority, Punjab Police, Traffic, Civil Defence Tourism, Excise, FBR, Customs, Sui Gas, IESCO, DC Office and others are attached with BFC and providing 163 different services.