ISLAMABAD: As part of its ‘Jamapunji’ awareness campaign, the SECP in association with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and the US-Pakistan Women’s Council (USPWC), held its first preparatory session with regard to Supply Chain Diversity Expo for incipient entrepreneurs at TiE’s WECREATE centre.
The objective of this event was to encourage gender diverse supply chains where men and women avail themselves of equal opportunity in benefiting from new market without any gender discrimination.
The SECP assured the audience that, in collaboration with TiE, it would do everything possible to facilitate women entrepreneurs. The SECP officials briefed the audience about the company registration process and corporate structure of start-ups. The audience were told about compliance requirements to be followed after company incorporation as well as regulation of the corporate sector, common forms of businesses and their pros and cons.
The SECP’s role in empowering fledgling entrepreneurs through its e-Services was highlighted. The participants were encouraged to go for corporatisation to have sustainable growth of their businesses.
The audience were also briefed about recent facilitation measures taken by SECP to encourage corporatisation including keeping the SECP’s regional offices in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi open on Saturdays and establishment of facilitation counters where customers are assisted with the incorporation process. Details of the recently launched ‘Swift Company Registration Scheme’, which has made the company registration an easy, quick and hassle-free process, were also shared with the audience.
The session was followed by an activity in which the participants underwent a mock process of company registration in order to understand its simplicity and technicalities. The participants greatly appreciated the SECP for raising awareness about start-ups.
