BISP chief orders staff to treat beneficiaries with respect

9.3 million poor families are benefitting from program, says chief

HYDERABAD:

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairman Dr Muhammad Amjad Saqib has asked the staff to treat the beneficiary women with respect and kindness and to ensure transparency in the disbursement of the stipends. He was addressing the programme's employees at Jamia Madina Mosque in Hyderabad on Monday.

He emphasised that the financial assistan9.3 million poor families are benefitting from the programce to the poor families should be provided as their right and not as if they were beggars.

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According to him, 9.3 million poor families are benefitting from the program. He told that more than 8.3 million children are receiving educational stipends and around 150,000 students undergraduate scholarship in addition to 1.3 million families being supported under the Nashonuma programme.

Saqib reiterated that the BISP is the largest welfare oriented program for the families which need the state's financial support. He said a substantial budget of Rs471 billion has been allocated this year for the program. "This programme aims to reduce the intensity of poverty among the vulnerable households."

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2023.