BISP to launch enrolment survey soon:Marvi Memon

Lahore: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson, Marvi Memon Wednesday said a survey would be launched soon to enrol more deserving women across  the country.

Addressing the launching ceremony of the “Beneficaries Outreach and Communication Strategy” here she said in addition to fresh deserving women, the survey would also cover those needy women who were left out in the previous surveys due to one reason or the other.

This strategy has already been launched in Thatta district of Sindh and Gilgit district of Gilgit-Baltistan. It will also be launched  in Rahimyar Khan, Swat and Quetta.

She said BISP was serving as a social safety net for all the poor segments of the society, helping them make self-reliant socially and economically.

She said Waseela-e-Taleem (WeT) of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) had reached the target of enrolling more than 1 million children in 32 districts of the country.

She said one million more children would be enrolled, adding BISP also aimed to extend this programme to the whole of the country so that maximum number of deserving children may benefit from the facility of incentive based free education.

She said a transparency had been ensured in financial disbursement process and relief was being extended to beneficiaries without discrimination or irrespective political affiliation, she added.

Marvi said women from the Kyber Pakhtunkhwa were also  benefitting from the programme’s schemes and complaints with regard to the programme were being addressed.

She also said that BISP was working for the welfare of its beneficiaries through cash transfer programme and other initiatives.

She also mentioned the Prime Minister’s interest free loans scheme which aims at providing resources to needy people so that they become self sufficient.

She said the present government under Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is committed to give dignity, empowerment and meaning of life to the BISP beneficiaries.