{"id":50821,"date":"2019-03-28T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50821"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:30:12","slug":"sme-policy-to-be-finalised-by-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sme-policy-to-be-finalised-by-april-11.html","title":{"rendered":"SME policy to be finalised by April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government is devising a policy concerned with small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) which will be finalised by April 11, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sme-policy-2019-focus-on-reduced-cost-of-doing-business.html\">SME Policy 2019: focus on reduced cost of doing business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood recently expressed his views on the matter. He was speaking at a meeting of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Industries and Production.<\/p>\n<p>He said that SMEs had immense economic importance. He added that the SME policy was first approved in 2007. Since then, successive governments have taken various initiatives to promote SMEs in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/agreement-signed-to-finance-smes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agreement signed to finance SMEs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response, MNA Sajid Hussain asked the minister to share the draft of the policy with the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, representatives of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) briefed the committee about the authority\u2019s objectives and functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-410-mn-grant-approved-for-480-smes-in-kp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PKR 410 mn grant approved for 480 SMEs in KP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They said that SMEDA has been tasked with framing the said policy and providing overall planning-related assistance to the SME sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government is devising a policy concerned with small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) which will be finalised by April 11, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0SME Policy 2019: focus on reduced cost of doing business Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood recently expressed his views on the matter. He was speaking at a meeting of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Industries and Production. He said that SMEs had immense economic importance. He added that the SME policy was first approved in 2007. Since then, successive governments have taken various initiatives to promote SMEs in the country. Read:\u00a0Agreement signed to finance SMEs In response, MNA Sajid Hussain asked the minister to share the draft of the policy with the committee. Moreover, representatives of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) briefed the committee about the authority\u2019s objectives and functions. Read:\u00a0PKR 410 mn grant approved for 480 SMEs in KP They said that SMEDA has been tasked with framing the said policy and providing overall planning-related assistance to the SME sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":37601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11091],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-sme-policy-to-be-finalised-by-april-11"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SME policy to be finalised by April 11 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government is devising a policy concerned with small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) which will be finalised by April 11, a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sme-policy-to-be-finalised-by-april-11.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SME policy to be finalised by April 11 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government is devising a policy concerned with small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) which will be finalised by April 11, a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sme-policy-to-be-finalised-by-april-11.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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