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\nKARACHI
\nEconomic Coordination Committee (ECC) Wednesday approved Rs33 billion subsidy for low-cost housing structures.
\nAdviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Abdul Hafeez Shaikh chaired the meeting of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and approved a mark-up subsidy for the Naya Pakistan Housing Authority.
\nAnnouncing the facilitation for the housing sector, the adviser said that mark-up subsidy would be given on bank financing for 10 years. Mark-up would remain five percent for a five marla house for a period of five years and would then be extended to seven percent for the remaining five years.
\nThe subsidy would be given on a three to five marla house, pricing up to Rs3.5 million. The subsidy on a 10-marla residential structure would be given if it has a value of up to Rs6 million. The ECC approved a Rs33 billion subsidy for low-cost housing structures.
\nThe ECC also approved a minimum price for tobacco for the year 2020 after a recommendation from the Prices and Grade Revision Committee.
\nA new system was also approved for the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) and other government functionaries with Rs 41.8 million approved by the ECC for it.
\nThe meeting headed by Hafeez Shaikh also decided that the Pakistan Army would be provided 150,000 metric tonnes of wheat from PASCO during the ongoing year.
\nMoreover, the economic-decision making body also approved the establishment of a mineral exploration company for facilitating the mining process in the Balochistan province and Rs 320 million would be provided through Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) for the project.
\nThe meeting also recommended the use of the Rs100 billion agriculture relief package and it was decided to earmark an amount of Rs 15.7 billion from it for potassium fertilizer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TLTP KARACHI Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) Wednesday approved Rs33 billion subsidy for low-cost housing structures. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Abdul Hafeez Shaikh chaired the meeting of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) and approved a mark-up subsidy for the Naya Pakistan Housing Authority. Announcing the facilitation for the housing sector, the adviser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n