Kifalat programme: 70,000 new beneficiaries included in 15 districts

The government has informed the National Assembly that after the removal of the names of over 800,000 fake beneficiaries from the list of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), some 4.4 million new names will be added to the social safety net.

In a written reply to a question, the minister in-charge of poverty alleviation and social safety division said that the 4.4 million more beneficiaries would be included under Kifalat programme and 70,000 new beneficiaries had already been included in 15 districts of the country.

The House was also given details of 820,165 ineligible recipients removed from the BISP data two months ago, including 153,302 for traveling abroad (self - once), 195,364 who traveled abroad (spouse - once), 10,476 who traveled abroad (self - more than once), 166,319 who travelled abroad (spouse) more than one, 692 for having one or more vehicles (self), 43,746 for having one or more vehicles (spouse), 24,546 for having monthly PTCL bill of Rs 1,000 (self), 115,767 for receiving PTCL bill of Rs 1,000 (spouse), 666 who applied for passports via executive centres (self), 580 for applying passports via such centres (spouse), 36,970 who have three or more family members applied for CNIC with executive fee, 14,730 who were government employees (self), and 127,826 wives of government employees.