Extending Outreach: BISP comes to the tribal areas

ISLAMABAD: The first ever nationwide poverty survey is now being conducted in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) so that deserving families can benefit from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). A BISP official told APP on Monday that the process of identifying deserving families will be completed soon in Fata which had been delayed due to security problems in the region. The deserving families are being registered with the National Database and Registration Authority to entitle them to all BISP incentives including monthly cash grant, Waseela-e-Haq, Waseela-e-Rozgar, Waseela-e-Sehat, Waseela-e- Taleem and life insurance, the official said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 24^th, 2012.