{"id":51843,"date":"2019-05-04T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=51843"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:03:03","slug":"draft-of-sme-policy-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/draft-of-sme-policy-reviewed.html","title":{"rendered":"Draft of SME policy reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The National Steering Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Policy reviewed a draft of the proposed SME policy on Thursday, a news source reported.<\/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>Previously, the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) had prepared the said document upon administrative request. It presented the draft during a meeting of the committee, which was presided over by the Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood.<\/p>\n<p>He said that SMEs play a key role in fostering economic growth, as they facilitate employment generation and enterprise creation. He added that 99% of economic establishments in Pakistan were SMEs.<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted the issues faced by the SME sector. He lauded SMEDA officials for preparing the draft as per the incumbent government\u2019s economic policies, which are aimed at creating employment opportunities as well as boosting exports.<\/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>The adviser said that the proposed policy would prioritise key areas in a bid to achieve sustainable SME growth &#8211; in addition to uplifting the country\u2019s export sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The National Steering Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Policy reviewed a draft of the proposed SME policy on Thursday, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0PKR 410 mn grant approved for 480 SMEs in KP Previously, the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) had prepared the said document upon administrative request. It presented the draft during a meeting of the committee, which was presided over by the Adviser to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood. He said that SMEs play a key role in fostering economic growth, as they facilitate employment generation and enterprise creation. He added that 99% of economic establishments in Pakistan were SMEs. He also highlighted the issues faced by the SME sector. He lauded SMEDA officials for preparing the draft as per the incumbent government\u2019s economic policies, which are aimed at creating employment opportunities as well as boosting exports. Read:\u00a0Agreement signed to finance SMEs The adviser said that the proposed policy would prioritise key areas in a bid to achieve sustainable SME growth &#8211; in addition to uplifting the country\u2019s export 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":[11526],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-draft-of-sme-policy-reviewed"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Draft of SME policy reviewed - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The National Steering Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Policy reviewed a draft of the proposed SME policy on Thursday, 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\/draft-of-sme-policy-reviewed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Draft of SME policy reviewed - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The National Steering Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Policy reviewed a draft of the proposed SME policy on Thursday, a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/draft-of-sme-policy-reviewed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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