{"id":63933,"date":"2020-04-11T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63933"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:19:30","slug":"govt-allow-low-risk-industries-resume-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-allow-low-risk-industries-resume-operations.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to allow low-risk industries to resume operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The government has informed the parliamentary committee on COVID-19 that it plans on allowing low-risk industries to resume operations \u2013 a news source reported. Further, several government officials have contended that the continued functioning of some industries is critical to keep up the supply of necessities in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-grants-lockdown-exemption-textile-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt grants \u2018lockdown exemption\u2019 to textile industry (opens in a new tab)\">Govt grants \u2018lockdown exemption\u2019 to textile industry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting, held in parliament on Thursday, was chaired by National\nAssembly Speaker Asad Qaiser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session, Adviser to the PM on Finance Dr Hafeez Shaikh briefed the committee regarding the steps being taken by the government to offset the economic impact of the pandemic. He said that the government had approved an incentive package for the economy; in addition to releasing PKR 1.5 billion for the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), as well as establishing a special fund worth PKR 100 billion to meet the country\u2019s energy requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lcci-seeks-relaxed-operations-schedule-small-traders-amid-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"LCCI seeks relaxed operations schedule for small traders amid lockdown (opens in a new tab)\">LCCI seeks relaxed operations schedule for small traders amid lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also stated that the government had announced a number of\ntax exemptions to provide relief to the people during this testing time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has informed the parliamentary committee on COVID-19 that it plans on allowing low-risk industries to resume operations \u2013 a news source reported. Further, several government officials have contended that the continued functioning of some industries is critical to keep up the supply of necessities in the country. Read: Govt grants \u2018lockdown exemption\u2019 to textile industry The meeting, held in parliament on Thursday, was chaired by National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser. During the session, Adviser to the PM on Finance Dr Hafeez Shaikh briefed the committee regarding the steps being taken by the government to offset the economic impact of the pandemic. He said that the government had approved an incentive package for the economy; in addition to releasing PKR 1.5 billion for the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), as well as establishing a special fund worth PKR 100 billion to meet the country\u2019s energy requirements. Read: LCCI seeks relaxed operations schedule for small traders amid lockdown He also stated that the government had announced a number of tax exemptions to provide relief to the people during this testing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":63188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[25907],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-govt-to-allow-low-risk-industries-to-resume-operations","9":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt to allow low-risk industries to resume operations - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government has informed the parliamentary committee on COVID-19 that it plans on allowing low-risk industries to resume operations \u2013 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-allow-low-risk-industries-resume-operations.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt to allow low-risk industries to resume operations - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government has informed the parliamentary committee on COVID-19 that it plans on allowing low-risk industries to resume operations \u2013 a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-allow-low-risk-industries-resume-operations.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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