Karachi: Sindh Minister for Industries & Commerce and Cooperative Department & Anti-corruption Jam Ikramullah Dharejo has said that the industries/ traders/ shops which have been allowed to operate by the Sindh government while easing the lockdown are in any case, supposed to implement SOPs in anyway.
Strict action will be taken against the owners of industries/ traders/ shops deviating from SOPs as per the law and they may be sealed.
He said that in the current situation of Coronavirus, the Sindh government was facing several problems but two of them were very important. The first was to protect people from the coronavirus. The second was to provide them with employment.
Dharejo added, ‘ The first priority of the Sindh government is to protect human lives and at the same time provide employment to the common man so that the stoves in people’s homes do not get cold’.
He asked the industrialists to extend full cooperation to the Sindh Government to keep the industrial wheel active and to fully comply with the Sindh Government SOPs.
The minister said that due to easing of lockdown, people are looking careless in taking precautionary measures due to which there has been an increase in local transmission of Corona virus which is very dangerous.
He appealed to the people that they should take precautionary measures to stay safe from the coronavirus, otherwise the Sindh Government will have to reconsider its policy of easing lockdown and take strict measures.
