Investors in the manufacturing industry have expressed the need for the government to invest heavily in the education sector for the country to have enough professionals in different sectors.
The Group Managing Director of Hanspaul Automechs Limited (HAL)
Satbir Hanspaul, made the challenge here over the weekend when
commenting on challenges facing the manufacturing sector in Tanzania.
Hanspaul whose firm assembles tourist vans said:
“As manufacturers, we are interested in employing Tanzanian
professionals, but sometimes we didn’t get them, that’s why we are
requesting responsible authorities to heavily uplift our educational
system.”
He also asked the government to seriously support local
manufacturers by increasing import duty for goods which are not locally
made.
“It is important for the government to impose heavy import duty for
imported goods so that local manufacturers play their role in building
the country’s economy,” he said, adding that the move would increase job
opportunities.
He also suggested the need for the government to make sure that
power is reliable and cheap. “Cost of production in Tanzania is high due
to high electricity tariffs.
Electricity tariffs are very high; that’s why we think it is
important for the government to come up with strategies that would make
power charges go down.”
Vice President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal recently presented two
‘Presidential Manufacturer of the Year’ awards 2014, to the Arusha-based
manufacturing company.
HAL which convert vehicles into tourist vans won in the ‘Metal and
Metal Works’ category while its sister company, Hanspaul and Sons
Limited scooped the award in ‘Building and Construction’ category.
The awards are issued annually by the Confederation of Tanzanian Industries (CTI).
The car converting firm now exports safari vehicles to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa and to Europe as well.
The converted Safari vehicles, which range from Toyota Land Cruiser
(hard body), Nissan, Land Rover and Toyota Hiace are popularly used to
ferry tourists into the national parks and other tourist destinations.
“Our market is highly dependent on the tourism industry but in this
year the industry’s yields have gone down,’’ the HAL boss remarked.
HAL has been converting the vehicles using sophisticated automated
robotic machines inside factory lines that look like any other vehicle
manufacturing set up in Japan.
Founder of Hanspaul’s firm, Kamaljit Hanspaul explained that the
key to its success was the firm’s adherence to quality and dedication to
innovations.
HAL assembly lines can produce between 30 and 35 safari vehicles in
a month but the factory manufactures the Winnebago models by order.
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