Pakistan News And Discussion-9

[Naresh]

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Nareshji,
Why this is happening -
Is it because of Earthquake? Main production area destroyed?
They are using carpets at home
Use new carpet whenever they welcome Mushy
New person with better accounting skill
It is not possible rice eating thin people from India can produce more and better carpet than Pakis?
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<b>Mudy Ji :</b>

Here is a Pakistani take on the Situation :

<b>Carpet-makers demand incentives</b>

LAHORE: The Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (CMEA) in a meeting with a Trade Development Authority of Pakistan official has demanded the government to provide facilities to the local traders and exporters equivalent to those of the Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs.

In a detailed meeting with TDAP Director General Agha Zafar Mehdi Shah, the association’s chairman Mian Javed-ur-Rehman said that Pakistan’s carpet industry was competing with India and China with limited resources and facilities. He said the Indian government was giving 8 percent rebate against 0.33 percent in Pakistan. Similar facilities are extend to carpet manufacturers and exporters in China besides other subsidies and incentives, he added. Mian Javed also criticised the increase in labour wages up to 33 percent in budget and pointed out that labour has become costlier than raw material.

He urged to fulfil the promise of setting up carpet city immediately. According to him, carpet exports declined substantially in first half of the fiscal year 2006-07. The TDAP DG assured the delegation of forwarding the demands and proposals to the high command. However, he pointed out that authority was striving hard to ease down the competing pressure on the carpet manufacturers and exporters. staff report

<b>Mudy Ji :</b> Not being in the Carpet Industry one is clueless. However, one can opine that in the majority of cases the Pakistani “Industrialists” have not cared to up-grade their machinery and are still carrying on with outmoded machinery as also they have never tried to upgrade the quality of labour.

As such they are still stuck with “Productivity Standards” more akin to the 1960s than present day.

The Indian entrepreneurs on the other hand have been modernizing their plants, guiding the labour to get improved productivity and possibly using better and more hardwearing fibres for the carpets they manufacture.

I am just taking a “wild” guess and may have got it totally wrong.

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