Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Farzana Raja has said the number of beneficiary families registered with BISP would rise up to 7 million till the next month. She said that 96% of the nation-wide poverty survey has already been completed and till now more than 5.4 million families have been enrolled with the BISP.
She said that Pakistan Peoples Party is a movement of giving the rights of the people at their doorsteps and BISP is successfully advancing this mission. Raja said this while addressing the cheques distributing ceremony at Governor House Lahore under the Waseela-e-Haq Scheme of the BISP, says a press release received here on Saturday. Besides others, Governor Punjab Sardar latif Ahamd Khosa, Federal Minister Samina Khalid Ghurki, Makhdoom Shahab-ud-Din, Imtiaz Safdar Warriach, Sami Ulalh Khan and Tanvir Ashraf kaira were also present on the occasion.
Chairperson BISP said that all the families registered with BISP are being included in the balloting under Waseela-e-Haq. Besides, she said, every registered family is being covered by life insurance of Rs One lac and a member from each registered family would be imparted with vocational/technical training under Waseela-e-Rozgar initiative.-PR