About 1.25 million households are getting benefit from government's project 'Food Support Programme' (FSP), designed to meet basic nutritional requirements of the poor and vulnerable groups.
An official of Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal told APP on Friday that the programme is successfully being carried out throughout the country as a positive step towards poverty alleviation.
He said the annual subsidy per household under FSP has recently been increased from Rs 2000 to Rs 2500. The eligible household can draw half-yearly subsidy of Rs 1000 after every six months.
The project has been devised to arrest the fast deteriorating situation created by the increasing prices of wheat, the nation's staple diet.
About the procedure for drawing subsidy (cash) through FSP, the official said the households approved by Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal (PBM) can submit their prescribed forms available from all PBM offices, post offices and district FSP committee offices (DFSP committee).
The beneficiaries will be identified through indicative data available with local/district Zakat committees, Pakistan Bait-ul-Maal (PBM) and other task force constituted by District FSP Committee. The subsidy will be transferred into beneficiary's Saving Bank Account (Post Office).
He said, after the processing and authentication of forms by DFSP committee, the approved households would be issued authority letters under intimation to designated post/sub post offices to open their saving bank accounts. Half-yearly subsidy (cash) will be transferred to the account where household could draw subsidy on presentation of FSP passbook and identity card.
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