ISLAMABAD, NOV 02 (DNA) – The business community of Islamabad was playing important role in the development of the local economy and Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) would take measures to resolve issues of trade and industry on priority basis.

This was observed by Sheikh Anser Aziz, Mayor Islamabad while talking to a delegation of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry that called on him in his office led by Ahmed Hassan Moughal President ICCI.

Rafat Farid Senior Vice President, Iftikhar Anwar Sethi Vice President ICCI, M. Ejaz Abbasi former President, Khalid Chaudhry and Muhammad Hussain were in the delegation.

Sheikh Anser Aziz said that fifty percent of the street lights in Islamabad were in working condition and the remaining would also be restored soon.

He said the sanitation work was assigned to contractors and it would be further improved to ensure proper sanitation and cleaning in the federal capital.

He said if any market association wanted to develop car parking or install filtration plan in market on self-finance basis, MCI would allow them to do such works.

He instructed Director (Municipal Administration) and Director (Sanitation) to visit ICCI to know about the problems of business community.

Speaking at the occasion, Ahmed Hassan Moughal, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry said that the issues of trade license and signboard tax have not been resolved for the last many years due to which traders were facing problems and MCI was losing revenue.

He said that last year, a consensus was developed on Rs.60/per sq yd as signboard tax rate, but MCI did not implement it. He stressed that MCI should seek mutually acceptable solutions of trade license and board tax issues to settle these matters with consensus.

Rafat Farid Senior Vice President, Iftikhar Anwar Sethi Vice President ICCI, M. Ejaz Abbasi also others also spoke at the occasion and offered many useful suggestions to resolve the issues of local business community.=DNA

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