Women Business Centre to start functioning by end of month

PESHAWAR: Women Business Development Centre (WBDC), being set up with the objective of facilitating women entrepreneurship in NWFP, will start functioning in Peshawar from end of current month. The project, to be completed at a cost of Rs 30 million, will provide support to women entrepreneurship ventures in the province by removing handicaps as regard to business infrastructure, business development and by providing conducive environment for women owned business, said Provincial Chief of SMEDA, Javed Iqbal Khattak. Mr Khattak said the centre, funded by Ministry of Industries and executed by SMEDA, would be set up at University Road in Peshawar by the end of January 2009.
Source: Daily Times
Date:1/8/2009