{"id":51674,"date":"2019-04-26T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51674"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T12:43:58","slug":"govt-plans-merge-ministries-board-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-plans-merge-ministries-board-investment.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans to merge ministries and Board of Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government is planning to merge the ministries of industries, production, and commerce, as well as the Board of Investment (BoI), a news source reported. It is working on devising a plan for this purpose, in order to improve the implementation of its proposed policy reforms. For the same reason, the government is also seeking to consolidate its existing institutions at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/line-ministries-to-be-given-more-powers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Line ministries to be given more powers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After this merger, the government plans to establish a National Competitiveness Council (NCC). This body will include the relevant representations from the federal, provincial, and private sectors. It will also feature a dedicated secretariat linked to the Prime Minister\u2019s (PM) Office.<\/p>\n<p>With the consolidation of the said ministries, the government expects to improve policy designs and the implementation of programmes; measures which will also ensure better services delivery. To make this possible, the executive will reportedly empower the NCC with a comprehensive mandate for designing and executing competitive interventions at the federal and provincial levels. The council will also be responsible for ensuring that the provinces officially endorse these policies, as well as the promotion frameworks created for small &amp; medium enterprises, trade, and investment.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-reach-consensus-fta-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan, China reach consensus on FTA-II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plan for establishing the NCC was included in a project document that has been submitted to the World Bank (WB) for financing. WB officials are expected to visit Pakistan in July 2019 to review this initiative, titled as \u2018Pakistan Goes Global: An Initiative for Global and Technology-driven Pakistan\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government is planning to merge the ministries of industries, production, and commerce, as well as the Board of Investment (BoI), a news source reported. It is working on devising a plan for this purpose, in order to improve the implementation of its proposed policy reforms. For the same reason, the government is also seeking to consolidate its existing institutions at the federal level. Read:\u00a0Line ministries to be given more powers After this merger, the government plans to establish a National Competitiveness Council (NCC). This body will include the relevant representations from the federal, provincial, and private sectors. It will also feature a dedicated secretariat linked to the Prime Minister\u2019s (PM) Office. With the consolidation of the said ministries, the government expects to improve policy designs and the implementation of programmes; measures which will also ensure better services delivery. To make this possible, the executive will reportedly empower the NCC with a comprehensive mandate for designing and executing competitive interventions at the federal and provincial levels. The council will also be responsible for ensuring that the provinces officially endorse these policies, as well as the promotion frameworks created for small &amp; medium enterprises, trade, and investment. Read:\u00a0Pakistan, China reach&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":34938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11450],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-govt-plans-to-merge-ministries-and-board-of-investment"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt plans to merge ministries and Board of Investment - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government is planning to merge the ministries of industries, production, and commerce, as well as the Board of Investment (BoI), a news\" \/>\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\/govt-plans-merge-ministries-board-investment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt plans to merge ministries and Board of Investment - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government is planning to merge the ministries of industries, production, and commerce, as well as the Board of Investment (BoI), a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-plans-merge-ministries-board-investment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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