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Mines and Mineral sector contributes 3% to national GDP

LAHORE: The mines and mineral sector contributes 3 per cent to the national GDP and this sector in Punjab provides the resource base to a number of industries including cement, soda ash, caustic soda, ceramics, glass, fertilizer, plastic, paper, ghee, construction and steel industries.

This was disclosed in a briefing given to Caretaker Minister for IC&T Mian Anjum Nisar here on Wednesday. Briefing the minister, Secretary Dr Arshad that apart from these industries, the majority of mining activity was limited to the extraction and sale of raw minerals with very little and no value addition to the mineral through processing and industrialization.

He said the mining industry in Punjab provides employment opportunities to nearly 40,000 workforce, including skilled, unskilled and professionals labour. He said that Mines and Minerals department had attached departments included Directorate Generals of Mines and Minerals, Chief Inspector of Mines, Punjab Minerals development company and Punjab Mineral company. 

 

 

 

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.