Service providers’ dues: BISP will make final payments after verification

ISLAMABAD:

The Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) will make final payments to service providers only after verification of their services

The verification process will be completed by September 30, said official sources. “The BISP is exercising utmost vigilance in clearing the last tranche to the service providers as it wants to ensure maximum transparency in utilisation of public funds,” said the sources.

The sources said that a ‘trace study’ has been launched to verify claims of the service providers including training institutes in nine districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) where the tracer study has almost been completed.

They sources said that the BISP will soon hold another meeting with the service providers/training institutes of K-P to share the results of the tracer study.

The Waseela-e-Rozgar programme of the BISP was launched in September 2011 aimed at imparting vocational training to 70,000 beneficiaries. So far, 57,817 beneficiaries have been provided training under the programme.

The BISP management has so far released Rs1,800 million for the programme, of which Rs799 million has been paid to the service providers.

On the basis of a decision by BISP management, the BISP has initiated a tracer study to evaluate the performance of the training providers which include verification of the institute, attendance of trainees and quality of training etc.

“The tracer study, once completed, would be helpful in processing the claims of the service providers. The BISP management will make the final payments after verification.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 26^th, 2014.