FROM MENAHILL RASHID
FAISALABAD: Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI) has fixed a target of membership renewal for the year 2022-23 at 90% and evolved a 3- layered strategy to achieve it, said Mr. Atif Munir Sheikh President FCCI.
He was addressing an emergent meeting to discuss the pace of renewal and take appropriate decisions to expedite this process. He said that Rana Muhammad Sikandar Azam Khan Chairman FCCI Standing Committee on Liaison with Trade Associations was looking after the renewal related matters for the last many years and hence, he has been entrusted this job in view of his previous experience. He said that the current renewal campaign will continue up to March 31 and only 23 days have been left. During this process, we are also organizing a 3-dayPakistan Economic Conference (PEC) and we must equally focus on the renewal as well as on the PEC to achieve the given targets. He said that last year we had achieved 84% renewal targets but this year we would make best efforts to convince 90% members to renew their membership positively before March 31, 2022. He said that we have a total 7142 members out of which 265 corporate and 603 associates have so far renewed their membership. “The renewal ratio is only 12.15%”, he said and added that we must expedite it in collaboration with the executive and chairmen of the standing committees. He said that if the remaining members are distributed among 30 executive members, each will have to contact 200 members. “If these members are divided among the 83 chairmen of the standing committees, their numbers would further reduce”, he said and added that a comprehensive monitoring system would also be added to overview the process of membership on a daily basis. He disclosed that the next meeting of the chairmen of the standing committees would also be held immediately after PEC on March 22. Mr. Atif Munir Sheikh said that FCCI has got a SMS package from a mobile company and now each FCCI member will get SMS, Email and letters regarding their renewal’s status. He said that members who would achieve the 90% target would be honored with shields and certificates in addition to hosting a dinner or lunch to recognize their contribution in this important task.
Later a meeting with the chairmen of the FCCI standing committees was also held in which different assignments were given to them regarding renewal of the membership. Senior Vice President Mr. Imran Mahmood Sheikh offered a vote of thanks and said that he would convince maximum members of APBUMA to renew their FCCI membership.
