ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Ishaq Dar witnessed the agreement signing ceremony of launching Pilot project of Digitization/Dematerialization of National Saving Certificates (NSCs) through Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited, here at Finance Division, on Tuesday.

According to an official press release, Badiuddin Akber, CEO, CDC and Hamid Raza, DG, CDNS signed the agreement on behalf of the Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) and Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) respectively.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Finance Tariq Bajwa, Akif Saeed Chairman SECP, Moin M Fudda, Chairman CDC, Hamid Raza DG CDNS and others attended the ceremony. Addressing the ceremony, Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Ishaq Dar extended his felicitations to Chairman CDC and senior executives, DG CNDS and Chairman SCEP for launching important project for the facilitation of investors of CDNS in digital form.

He lauded the contributions of CDNS and CDC in the economic growth of the country and said that there is a great potential in CNDS to attract more investors for the economic betterment of the country. The Finance Minister also appreciated the team of the Finance Division, especially the Secretary Finance and the AFS (Budget).