{"id":68345,"date":"2020-07-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=68345"},"modified":"2020-07-23T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:01:08","slug":"kp-announces-pkr-4bn-relief-package-construction-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-announces-pkr-4bn-relief-package-construction-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"KP announces PKR 4bn relief package for construction industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Tuesday announced a relief package worth PKR 4 billion to revive the construction industry in the province, a news source reported. The announcement came during a cabinet meeting chaired by KP Chief Minister (CM) Mahmood Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-expedites-construction-seven-hydel-power-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP expedites construction in seven hydel power projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special Assistant to the CM on Local Government (LG) stated that the provincial government has added a maximum relief pertaining to taxes. This includes an exemption of local council tax, he said. The relief package for the construction industry would remain valid until June 30, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, the provincial executive has waived off the registration licence fee tax for hotels and restaurants for one year. Sources revealed that this measure would facilitate the revival of the tourism sector, which suffered significantly due to government-imposed lockdown in light of the coronavirus situation. The provincial government has also handed over 85 guest houses of different departments to the Tourism Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-take-action-against-use-substandard-construction-materials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP govt to take action against use of substandard construction materials<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cabinet also directed the departments concerned to expedite work on Accelerated Implementation Program (AIP) for ensuring speedy development in merged districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Tuesday announced a relief package worth PKR 4 billion to revive the construction industry in the province, a news source reported. The announcement came during a cabinet meeting chaired by KP Chief Minister (CM) Mahmood Khan. Read: KP expedites construction in seven hydel power projects Special Assistant to the CM on Local Government (LG) stated that the provincial government has added a maximum relief pertaining to taxes. This includes an exemption of local council tax, he said. The relief package for the construction industry would remain valid until June 30, 2021. On the other hand, the provincial executive has waived off the registration licence fee tax for hotels and restaurants for one year. Sources revealed that this measure would facilitate the revival of the tourism sector, which suffered significantly due to government-imposed lockdown in light of the coronavirus situation. The provincial government has also handed over 85 guest houses of different departments to the Tourism Department. Read: KP govt to take action against use of substandard construction materials The cabinet also directed the departments concerned to expedite work on Accelerated Implementation Program (AIP) for ensuring speedy development in merged districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15013],"tags":[35404],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-construction","8":"tag-details-on-kp-announces-pkr-4bn-relief-package-for-construction-industry","9":"cat-15013-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KP announces relief package for construction industry - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Tuesday announced a relief package worth PKR 4 billion to revive the construction industry in the province.\" \/>\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\/kp-announces-pkr-4bn-relief-package-construction-industry.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP announces relief package for construction industry - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Tuesday announced a relief package worth PKR 4 billion to revive the construction industry in the province.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-announces-pkr-4bn-relief-package-construction-industry.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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