{"id":57892,"date":"2019-11-24T09:55:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=57892"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:58:26","slug":"punjab-sme-sector-get-pkr-9-5bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-sme-sector-get-pkr-9-5bn.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab SME sector to get PKR 9.5bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government on Thursday announced its decision to launch a scheme worth PKR 9.5 billion for the promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector, as well as to facilitate the revival of the cottage industry, a news source reported. This initiative was sanctioned during a meeting held to discuss the promotion of the SME sector, the revival of cottage industry and the implementation of several youth-empowerment programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sme-capacity-building-initiative-launched-across-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SME capacity-building initiative launched across Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Punjab Industries and Trade Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal said that the provision of interest-free loans of up to PKR 6 billion had been approved for young entrepreneurs. He added that disbursement of these loans would begin this month. By way of this process, the hurdles faced while investing in a business or looking for loans have been removed, said the minister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/secp-approves-listing-rules-smes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SECP approves listing rules for SMEs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister emphasised on the need of such projects; stating that 60% of the province\u2019s population consisted of a young demographic. \u2018Empowering people from this sector of society can easily speed up the process of uplifting the country as a whole and change Pakistan\u2019s destiny,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government on Thursday announced its decision to launch a scheme worth PKR 9.5 billion for the promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector, as well as to facilitate the revival of the cottage industry, a news source reported. This initiative was sanctioned during a meeting held to discuss the promotion of the SME sector, the revival of cottage industry and the implementation of several youth-empowerment programmes. Read:\u00a0SME capacity-building initiative launched across Pakistan Punjab Industries and Trade Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal said that the provision of interest-free loans of up to PKR 6 billion had been approved for young entrepreneurs. He added that disbursement of these loans would begin this month. By way of this process, the hurdles faced while investing in a business or looking for loans have been removed, said the minister. Read:\u00a0SECP approves listing rules for SMEs The minister emphasised on the need of such projects; stating that 60% of the province\u2019s population consisted of a young demographic. \u2018Empowering people from this sector of society can easily speed up the process of uplifting the country as a whole and change Pakistan\u2019s destiny,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":34574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14080],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-punjab-sme-sector-to-get-pkr-9-5bn"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab SME sector to get PKR 9.5bn - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government on Thursday announced its decision to launch a scheme worth PKR 9.5 billion for the promotion of Small and Medium\" \/>\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\/punjab-sme-sector-get-pkr-9-5bn.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab SME sector to get PKR 9.5bn - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government on Thursday announced its decision to launch a scheme worth PKR 9.5 billion for the promotion of Small and Medium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-sme-sector-get-pkr-9-5bn.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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