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Lahore: PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar Thursday explained his stance with regard to press reports about Benazir Income Support Programme.
He said that he had launched the Rs 34 billion Pakistan Income Support Programme when he was the country’s finance minister in 2008. The programme, he added, was aimed at extending financial aid to the poorest of the poor and downtrodden people.
“It was made clear in my proposed scheme that the programme would be free of corruption and the poor would be given financial help after thorough scrutiny and oblivious of any political affiliation,” the senator said. He said that after he quit the ministry, not only the name of programme was changed but the conditions tagged to the program to protect it from corruption were totally ignored.
“This is vindicated from the fact that the PPP has itself acknowledged that the names of 750, 000 families from a list of 3.7 million beneficiary families of Benazir Income Support Programme were struck off after an audit report revealed that these were either not poor or did not exist at all,” he said.
The senator said that the programme has been slammed not because it was not beneficial to the poor but due to mismanagement and poor implementation by the PPP government.
