{"id":92690,"date":"2023-03-02T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=92690"},"modified":"2023-03-02T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:56:09","slug":"ecc-5-bn-ramzan-relief-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecc-5-bn-ramzan-relief-package.html","title":{"rendered":"ECC approves PKR 5 bn Ramzan Relief Package"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a PKR 5 billion Ramzan Relief Package for the United Stores Corporation (USC), the news sources reported on March 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecc-early-start-reko-diq-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECC okays agendas for early start of Reko Diq project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ECC approved a hybrid model of targeted and untargeted relief package for Utility Stores Corporation in a meeting presided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. The Ministry of Industries and Production submitted the Ramzan Relief Package summary, which was discussed and approved by the ECC. Sources revealed that the government will provide targeted subsidies of PKR 1.15 billion to people registered under the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) and PKR\u00a0 3.84 billion for untargeted subsidies on various items, including ghee, tea, flour, sugar, milk, beverages, dates, and gram flour.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecc-site-road-rehabilitation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECC approves PKR 1bn for rehabilitation of roads in SITE area<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to note that the month of Ramadan is around the corner, starting on March 22. The inflation rate, however, has reached a historic high of 32% in the month of February and is expected to rise amid an interest rate hike expected in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a PKR 5 billion Ramzan Relief Package for the United Stores Corporation (USC), the news sources reported on March 2.\u00a0 Read: ECC okays agendas for early start of Reko Diq project The ECC approved a hybrid model of targeted and untargeted relief package for Utility Stores Corporation in a meeting presided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. The Ministry of Industries and Production submitted the Ramzan Relief Package summary, which was discussed and approved by the ECC. Sources revealed that the government will provide targeted subsidies of PKR 1.15 billion to people registered under the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) and PKR\u00a0 3.84 billion for untargeted subsidies on various items, including ghee, tea, flour, sugar, milk, beverages, dates, and gram flour.\u00a0 Read: ECC approves PKR 1bn for rehabilitation of roads in SITE area It is important to note that the month of Ramadan is around the corner, starting on March 22. The inflation rate, however, has reached a historic high of 32% in the month of February and is expected to rise amid an interest rate hike expected in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[56564,56565,25000],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-ecc-approves-pkr-5-bn-ramzan-relief-package","9":"tag-ramzan-reliefpackage","10":"tag-relief-package","11":"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>ECC approves PKR 5 bn Ramzan Relief Package - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sources revealed that under the Ramzan Relief Package, government will give targeted subsidies of PKR 1.15 billion to people registered under\" \/>\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\/ecc-5-bn-ramzan-relief-package.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ECC approves PKR 5 bn Ramzan Relief Package - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sources revealed that under the Ramzan Relief Package, government will give targeted subsidies of PKR 1.15 billion to people registered under\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecc-5-bn-ramzan-relief-package.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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