{"id":65265,"date":"2020-05-09T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=65265"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:37:11","slug":"relief-package-smes-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/relief-package-smes-discussed.html","title":{"rendered":"Relief package for SMEs discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh chaired a meeting to discuss the relief package for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/relief-package-textile-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Relief package in the works for textile industry: Dawood<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, the Finance Ministry issued a statement which outlined the assistance package. According to details, the package will focus on both formal and informal SMEs with 5-30 employees which have faced losses recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaikh said that the primary purpose of the package will be to ensure that those attached to these businesses are not laid off. The meeting discussed various solutions to the issues particularly on how to continue the production and make profits, in turn, enabling the businesses to pay employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-cng-station-owners-request-relief.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19 Lockdown: Sindh\u2019s CNG station owners request relief package<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting also discussed the proposal to provide IT skills to businesses in order to boost their productivity and financial returns. To this effect, the authorities concerned would seek assistance from Small and Medium Enterprises Authority (SMEDA) and the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) for the implementation of the package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh chaired a meeting to discuss the relief package for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, a news source reported. Read: Relief package in the works for textile industry: Dawood Later, the Finance Ministry issued a statement which outlined the assistance package. According to details, the package will focus on both formal and informal SMEs with 5-30 employees which have faced losses recently. Shaikh said that the primary purpose of the package will be to ensure that those attached to these businesses are not laid off. The meeting discussed various solutions to the issues particularly on how to continue the production and make profits, in turn, enabling the businesses to pay employees. Read: COVID-19 Lockdown: Sindh\u2019s CNG station owners request relief package The meeting also discussed the proposal to provide IT skills to businesses in order to boost their productivity and financial returns. To this effect, the authorities concerned would seek assistance from Small and Medium Enterprises Authority (SMEDA) and the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) for the implementation of the package.<\/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":[15012],"tags":[28600],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-relief-package-for-smes-discussed","9":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Relief package for SMEs discussed - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh chaired a meeting to discuss the relief package for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, a news source reported.\" \/>\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\/relief-package-smes-discussed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Relief package for SMEs discussed - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh chaired a meeting to discuss the relief package for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/relief-package-smes-discussed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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