Compiled by: R&D Department, FCCI

PERFORMANCE REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2019

PRESENTED TO

MIAN MUHAMMAD ADREES (FORMER PRESIDENT FCCI & FPCCI)

(CEO SITARA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD)

BY RANA MUHAMMAD SIKANDAR AZAM KHAN

PRESIDENT THE FAISALABAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (FCCI)

THE FAISALABAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

Department: Research & Development

FCCI-Complex, Canal Park, East Canal Road

Faisalabad. Pakistan.

Phone: +92-41-9230265-68, Fax: +92-41-9230270

Email: info@fcci.com.pk, web: www.fcci.com.pk

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Table of Contents

Important Letters Initiated to Concernd Quarters

President Engangments During the month of Oct 2019........................... 5

Press Coverage ........................................................................................ 7

Monthly Karkardagi .............................................................................. 17

Activities Of FCCI R&D Department…….……………..……..…….38

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IMPORTANT LETTERS INITIATED TO CONCERNED QUARTERS

OCTOBER 2019

1) Letter initiated to The City Police Officer Matter taken up regarding “law & order

Situation at Satyana Road, Faislabad”. vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1519/19 dated 05-10-

2019.

2) Letter initiated to Mr. Azhar Akram, The City Police Officer Matter taken up

regarding “Khidmat Markaz FCCI facilities”. vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1537/19 dated

08-10-2019.

3) Letter initiated to Honorable Prime Minister Imran Khan Matter taken up regarding

“Harassment by Statistical Bureau of Pakistan ”. vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1546/19

dated 08-10-2019.

4) Letter initiated to The Divisional Commissioner, The City Police Officer, The Chief

Traffic Officer Faisalabad Matter taken up regarding “Encroachment /

Mismanagement of Traffic- Bad Governance ”. vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1547/19

dated 08-10-2019.

5) Letter initiated to Mr. Muhammad Ali, Deputy Commissioner, Faisalabad Extended

Invitation request to Deputy Commissioner. vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1565/19 dated

14-10-2019.

6) Letter initiated to General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff, Extended

Invitation request to Chief of Army Staff. vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1573/19 dated 16-

10-2019.

7) Letter initiated to Mr. Abdul Razak Dawood, Advisor to prime Minister on

Commerce, Textile, Industry and Production & Investment, Extended Invitation

request to Advisor to prime Minister vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1578/19 dated 17-10-

2019.

8) Letter initiated to Mr. Abdul Razak Dawood, Advisor to prime Minister on

Commerce, Textile, Industry and Production & Investment, Government of

Pakistan Extended Invitation request to Advisor to prime Minister vide FCCI Letter

# P-8/1578/19 dated 17-10-2019.

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9) Letter initiated to Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ashraf (HI, SI), Vice Chancellor,

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad , Extended Invitation request to Vice

Chancellor vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1584/19 dated 19-10-2019.

10) Letter initiated to Dr. Shireen M.Mazari, Federal Minister for Human Rights,

Government of Pakistan, Extended Invitation request to Minister for Human Rights

vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1589/19 dated 22-10-2019.

11) Letter initiated to H.E Mr. Stefano Ponticorvo, “Ambassador of Italy”. Extended

Invitation request to Ambassador vide FCCI Letter # P-8/1614/19 dated 26-10-

2019.

12) Letter initiated to Mr. Murad Raas, Minister for School Education, Government of

the Punjab, Extended Invitation request to Minister for School Education vide FCCI

Letter # P-8/1615/19 dated 26-10-2019.

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PRESIDENT’S ENGAGEMENTS

EVENTS DURING THE MONTH OCTOBER 2019

DAY / DATE DESCRIPTION T I M E

Wednesday 2nd October

2019 FCCI Executive Committee emergent meeting at FCCI 11:30 am

Thursday 3rd October

2019 German Unity Day at German Embassy Islamabad 07:00 pm

Monday 7th October

2019

FWCCI Executive Committee meeting at Fatima Jinnah Hall 11:00 am

Meet the Press at Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce &

Industry 12:00 noon

Wednesday 9th October

2019

FIEDMC BOD meeting at FIEDMC 11:00 am

Meeting with Molana Bashir Farooqui, Chairman Sylani

Welfare at FCCI 12:45 pm

Presentation by Farani Taylor Solicitors at FCCI 02:30 pm

09-10 October 2019 All Pakistan DICE –AFS-2019 & Industrial Expo 2019 at

University of Agriculture Multan

Friday 11th October

2019

World Egg Day, by Poultry Industry at the Faisalabad

Chamber of Commerce & Industry 10:00 am

Visit of Delegation from Asian Development Bank to FCCI 02:00 pm

Saturday 12th October

2019

57th Anniversary of Daily Paigham at Prime Centre, Mayor

House Road Faisalabad 04:00 pm

Reception Dinner by Ch. Amanat Ali (Asad Motors) at Qamar

Garden 08:00 pm

12 & 13 October

2019

Xecutions Food & Fashion Expo-II at Seven Seas Marquee,

Pearl City Sargodha Road, Faisalabad.

01:00 to 10:00

pm

Sunday 13th October,

2019

Reception Dinner by Timber Association Near Javed Kanda,

Sheikhupura Road 08:00 pm

Monday 14th October

2019 President’s Meeting with Associations at FCCI 11:00 am

14-16 October 2019 33rd Annual conference of the Asian Association of Open

Universities; at PC Hotel Lahore

Tuesday 15th October

2019

Event at Nusrat Fateh Ali Auditorium 11:00 am

FCCI Executive committee meeting at FCCI 12:30pm

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Meeting with RPO Faisalabad and DPO TobaTekSing at

Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry 02:00 pm

15-17 October 2019 5th Intl. Digital Printing & Signage Exhibition at Expo Centre

Lahore

Wednesday 16th

October 2019

Joint meeting of Textile sector Associations with President

FCCI at FCCI 11:00 am

SMEDA Training Session at FCCI 10:00 am

Friday

18th October 2019

QasimSaddiqui Family Entertainment Show at Regency Grand

Marquee East Canal Road, Faisalabad 05:00 pm

Saturday 19th October,

2019

COTHM’ International Chefs’ Day at COTHM 10:30 am

Visit of Director NIBGE & Doctors from Punjab Medical

Associations at FCCI 11:00 am

Monday 21st October,

2019

Visit of Trade and Investment Officers to be posted abroad to

FCCI 10:00 am

BoD meeting of FiEDMC at FIEDMC 11:00 am

Visit of Participants of MCMC National Institute of

Management Peshawar to FCCI 02:30 pm

Dinner at Chenab Club by District Bar Association 08:00 pm

Tuesday 22nd October

2019

“Stage Play” by / at GC Women University 11:30 am

Meeting of Superintendent to RPO with Officer Bearers FCCI 02:00 pm

Wednesday 23rd

October 2019

Seminar on Islamic Banking by Meezan Bank at FCC 11:00 am

Visit of UNIDO’s Officials from Islamabad to FCCI 02:30 pm

Thursday 24th October,

2019

Event on “Did UN Fail on Kashmir Issue” by Education

department at FCCI Auditorium 10:00 am

Award Distribution Ceremony by Private Shcools Forum at Taj

Marquee Dijkot 11:00 am

Friday 25th October

2019

Meeting regarding uplifting Faisalabad at FDA office

Faisalabad 11:00am

Visit of Dr. Shireen Mazari Federal Minister for Human Rights

to FCCI 02:30pm

7th Employer of the Year Award 2018 at Marriott Karachi by

EFP ILO 06:00 pm

Wedding Ceremony of D/o Mr. Muhammad Asghar, at Silver

Spoon, East Canal Road 07:00 pm

Saturday 26th

October 2019

Visit of Shahid Khan Afridi former cricketer to FCCI 10:30am

Meeting regarding Issues/Problems faced by Travels & Tours /

Hajj &Umra with PIA at FCCI 10:30 am

Visit of CTO/SSP Ops. To the Faisalabad Chamber of

Commerce & Industry 11:00 am

Oath Taking Ceremony of Wood Furniture Makers Association

at Chiniot 02:00 pm

Walima Ceremony of S/o Naseer Vohra at Royal Palm

Markquee 08:00 pm

Monday 28th October

2019

Meelad Conference at The Sherton Marquee, Canal Road

Faisalabad 06:00 pm

Tuesday 29th October,

2019

Panel Discussion on Bridging Gaps between Industry and

Academia at TUF Canal Campus 03:20 pm

National Day of Turkey at Embassy Islamabad 06:30 pm

Wednesday 30th

October, 2019

Prize Distribution by/at Akhuwat 11:00 am

Event at Faisalabad Airport by PIA 10:00 pm

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Thursday 31st October,

2019

Visit of DC Faisalabad to FCCI 11:00 am

Visit of Italian Ambassador to Faisalabad Chamber of

Commerce & Industry 12:30 pm

Meet the Press by FWCCI 03:00 pm

“Doing Business Reforms Exhibition” at Serena Islamabad 02:30 pm

PRESS COVERAGE FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2019

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ACTIVITIES OF FCCI R&D

DEPARTMENT

For the month of

OCTOBER, 2020

R&D Department performed following activities during Sep 2019 to Jan 2020:

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# Description Status

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Working on Circulation of Important Business News

R&D department circulate important business news to its members all 07

days

of week including Sunday from multiple news papers like Business Recorder,

Dawn, The News etc

Daily Basis

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Working on highlight/mark the important news

Approximately 60 different local and national news papers are highlighted on

daily basis Including Sunday also.

Daily Basis

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Working on press clippings

Cutting, pasting and scanning of each important news is done out of 60

different local and national news papers on daily basis Including Sunday also.

Daily Basis

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Working on press release

English and Urdu Press releases are published on daily basis including

Sunday regarding meetings held on FCCI platform.

Daily Basis

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Working on queries of Members

R&D Department facilitates its members and respond to their queries

according to their requirements through telephonically, email , message etc

Number of queries attended during the month are approximately 10-15

Daily Basis

According to

demand

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Working on Welcome Address & Supporting Material

R&D Department worked on various speech notes according to schedule

meeting. Following welcome address are prepared under R&D Department:

Daily basis as

per schedule

event is

confirmed

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Month Welcome Address SR#

October 1 پریس دی میٹ

October 2 سیمینار آگاہی کا فرم برطانوی بارے کاری سرمایہ اور امیگریشن

October 3 (دن عالمی کا انڈوں) ڈے ایگ ورلڈ

October 4 آمد چیمبر کی سنگھ ٹیک ٹوبہ او پی ڈی اور آفیسر پولیس ریجنل

October 5 پشاور مینجمنٹ آف ٹیوٹ انسٹی نیشنل

October 6 آمد چیمبر آفیسرکی ٹریڈ اینڈ کامرس

October کی رضا علی سید آفیسر ٹریفک چیف اینڈ آپریشن پی ایس ایس

7 آمد چیمبر

October 8 (سپاسنامہ میں انگلش) آمد چیمبر کی سفیر کے اٹلی

October 9 لینکجز اکیڈیمیا انڈسٹری

October 10 بینک میزان بینکنگ اسالمی سیمینار

October 11 آمد چیمبر علی محمد آباد فیصل کمشنر ڈپٹی

October 12 آمد چیمبر کی مزاری شیریں محترمہ وزیر وفاقی کی حقوق انسانی

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Working on Circulation of Trade , fairs, seminars

R&D Department facilitates its members and disburses the important

information regarding seminars, workshops trade fairs received from various

sources including public private organizations.

Daily, Weekly

& Monthly

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Working on China Visa

R&D Department facilitates its members regarding processing of China visa

FCCI Chinese visa help desk provide easy and quick services to facilitates its

members and make it convenient for them.

Approximately 35 applications were processed during the month.

When required

(Daily,

Weekly,

Monthly &

Yearly basis)

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Working for organizing Trade Delegations to abroad

Pipeline delegations are:

R&D Department organizes various Trade delegations to abroad for its

members and provide them platform to boost their exports in traditional and

non-traditional markets.

Currently following delegations are in pipeline:

1) Delegation to Saudi Arabia

When required

(Daily,

Weekly,

Monthly &

Yearly basis)

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Working on Pak Economy

R&D department work for compiling supporting data for example Import &

Export Data, Stock Exchange, Refund Summary, Trade & Expo’s, Textile

Export, Different policies, proposals, Debt servicing summary, Import crops)

Weekly,

Monthly &

Yearly basis

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Working on Economic Indicators

R&D department work for compiling economic indicators like GDP, import,

export, trade deficit, tax to gdp , inflation, remittances, share of agriculture,

service and industry etc.

Weekly/Month

ly

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Working on Circulation of SRO’s & Notification

R&D department circulate important notifications to its members time to time

when issued by FBR, Ministry of Textile, Board of Investment, Ministry of

Commerce, OGRA etc

When Issued

by

Government of

Pakistan on

Weekly,

Monthly &

Yearly basis

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Working on report of FCCI working

R&D department work on compiling monthly performance report.

Monthly basis

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Working on Visit Reports of high profile dignitaries

R&D department work on compiling visit report of high profile dignitaries

which are post event reports of meetings.

When

Required

Daily, Weekly

& Monthly

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Working on monthly performance

Monthly performance is supporting document comprises of press release

which should be added into monthly performance report of FCCI and

compiled on monthly basis

Monthly

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Working on record of Executive Committee Minutes, Emergent &

Annual General Meetings

R&D Department work for record and maintain Executive Committee

Minutes, Emergent meetings & Annual General Meetings.

Monthly &

Yearly basis

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Worked on Executive Committee brochure

R&D Department worked for compiling the Business Profiles of FCCI

Executive Committee for the year 2019-2020.

Yearly

For the year of

2019-2020

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Working on Letters to High Profile Dignitaries/ For research projects

R&D department work for letters required according to the nature of project

time to time like letters required for executive brochure etc

When required

19 Working on Country Profiles Weekly,

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R&D department work for compiling various country profiles as supporting

data

Monthly &

Yearly basis

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Working on Minutes of Standing Committees

R&D department work for recording minutes of FCCI standing committees

and during the month minutes of 14 meetings were recorded during the month

by R&D department.

According to

schedule

meeting

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Working on prepare Research Reports

R&D department prepare research reports according to the requirement of

schedule meeting

When required

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Working for arbitration

R&D department work for arbitration committee to solve their issues between

two parties. In this regard record minutes, arrange meetings etc

Following cases are in pipeline:

1) Sunnair Textiles Vs Al-Hassan Textile Mills

2) Shahzad Enterprises Vs Coca Cola Beverages Pakistan Ltd.

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Any other task assigned by Competent Authority

R&D department performed each task well on time and according to the

requirement and satisfaction of the FCCI President, Senior Vice President and

Vice President.

By President,

Senior Vice

President, Vice

President