Monday 14 January 2013

High-powered committee to boost SMEs formed

The Small Medium Enterprises Development Central and Work Committee has been formed to assist small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to the Presidential Office.

As SMEs are facing a hard landing in this economy, the government has set up the committee to give them a boost.


The committee is led by the president, with vice presidents 1 and 2, while eight union ministers from the Presidential Office will act as three secretaries and five joint secretaries.

The members include 20 union ministers, the union attorney -general, the union auditor-general, ministers from divisions and regions and the president of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI).

The committee will be mainly functioning to make necessary rules and regulations, promote an open economy, provide loans from both government and private banks, assist with required technologies, connect with the international market and develop human resources.

The work committee will be chaired by the vice president, with the union minister from the Ministry of Commerce as secretary and union minister from the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development as joint secretary. The members include five union ministers from the Presidential Office, ministers and deputy ministers of Commerce, Finance, Hotels and Tourism, Agriculture and Irrigation, Science and Tech, Health, Education, Energy, Electrical Power, and Communication and Info Tech and the vice president of UMFCCI.
 
source: Eleven Myanmar

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