HYDERABAD, Dec 9: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has taken strong notice of illegal tax collection by market committees and directed the RPO of Hyderabad and the RPO of Sukkur to arrest people responsible for collecting tax and ensure that all posts established for the purpose along roads in Sindh are removed.

He also directed them to take similar action against personnel who were illegally charging heavy export tax on raw cotton dispatched to Punjab province. He was talking to a delegation of the Kotri Association of Trade and Industry here on Thursday.

Mr Arbab also received the delegation of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Muttahida Qaumi Movement. He addressed party workers before leaving for Sann in the afternoon.

The chief minister also met Mai Jindo whose two sons and a son in-law were killed by security forces in Tando Bahawal village and whose two daughters committed self-immolation in protest against an inordinate delay in the dispensation of justice.

HCCI: Talking to members of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the local circuit house, he claimed that Sindh was leading in investment and enhanced industrialization as compared to other provinces due to adoption of flexible policy, provision of infrastructure and maintaining law and order.

He said the prime minister was taking keen interest to raise living standard of people by enhancing investment and trading activities and to create job opportunities in the private sector.

He said that though all required facilities had been provided at industrial sites but there was more room to boost the industrial sector. He said that the Sindh government had decided to extend existing industrial sites and provide plots to industrialists on instalment basis subject to condition that they installed their industries within due time.

He urged office-bearers of the HCCI to submit their proposals for extension of industrial sites, establishment of display centre with reference to previous decisions taken by the government within the shortest possible time and assured that their problems would be solved on the priority basis.

He called upon the management of the HCCI to establish water treatment plant for safe disposal of effluent into the Phulelli canal without creating any environmental and water contamination problems for people.