MULTAN – Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is set to launch two morefinancial support programmes ‘Tahafuz and Ihsas’ for marginalized people,particularly widows and disabled in a couple of months after conducting abrief survey anticipated until end of April.
Talking to APP here on Tuesday, Divisional Director Ishfaq Ahmad Hiraj saidthe incumbent government soon after taking into power had started tostrengthen institutional capacity of BISP, and decided to introduce newprogrammes to develop lower strata of society. He lauded the PTI governmentfor taking concrete steps to end corruption from the department.The director said over 300,000 deserving people were already receivingstipend of Rs 5000 monthly from Rs 1.5 billion grant they receivedquarterly from the government.He said the new survey had already been started in Sindh and Bahawalpurwhich was likely to come over here very soon.He said, the BISP had an edge to share data of deserving people to thegovernment functionaries, which launched other welfare programmes likeissuing health card scheme for poor.
