RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) on Thursday organised an orientation session on Pakistan single window for women entrepreneurs at the chamber house.

RCCI President Saqib Rafiq said the aim was to provide a platform for achieving gender equality and women’s economic empowerment through greater participation of women in cross-border trade by providing effective and sustained mechanisms of trading to women entrepreneurs and traders.

The session provided an opportunity to women entrepreneurs to get information related to the single electronic platform to efficiently meet requirements for regulation of imports, exports and transit trade and processes to improve ease of doing business and compliance.

Vice President Faisal Shahzad, Chairperson Women Committee Shadab Khan, Executive Committee members, women entrepreneurs and students from different institutes attended the session.

Published in Dawn, March 17th, 2023

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