Over 1.8m families registered for BISP

Over 1.8 million families registered with Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) would receive over 5.4 million wheat flour bags till 25th of Ramazan in Dera Ghazi Khan division.

Sources said total 319,197 flour bags had already been distributed in four districts including DG Khan, Muzaffargarh, Layyah and Rajanpur. DG Khan Commissioner Dr Nasir Mahmood Bashir, RPO Captain (retd) Sajjad Hassan Khan, the deputy commissioners and other officials are regularly visiting free flour centres where poor people go through the process of identity card scanning for an eligibility check before they receive flour bags.

Staff deputed at the centres are being monitored regularly and they are treating the people with respect, the sources confided.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 31^st, 2023.