The meeting recommended that all industrial units in Punjab will get their site plans approved from the Building Control Authorities (BCA) and all the building control authorities will notify special building bylaws and regulations regarding structural stability and occupational safety arrangements.
The proposed "Punjab Industrial Regulatory Authority" will oversee the enforcement of all these bylaws. All the industrial units situated in industrial estates and working under the Punjab Small Industries Corporation along with the thousands of other industrial units working in the jurisdiction of development authorities and tehsil municipal administrations all over the Punjab will get their site plans approved from the BCA.
The draft recommendations have been finalised in line with Pakistan Standards Control documents prepared by Pakistan Engineering Council. These will be sent to the Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif for approval after which the draft bill will be tabled before the Punjab Assembly for promulgation.
The stakeholders, who participated in the meeting include Secretary Industries Punjab Mujtaba Paracha, Secretary Irrigation Saif Anjum, Secretary Regulation Dr Muhammad Saleh Tahir, Chairman Pakistan Engineering Council Javed Saleem Qureshi,MD Punjab Small Industries Corporation Bilal Ahmad Butt, Special Secretary Local Government Sarah Aslam, CEO Punjab Industrial Development and Management Company Iftikhar Hussain along with the senior representatives from Faisalabad Industrial Development and Management Company, Labour Department and Law Department Punjab.
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