The Emergency Relief Package of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is being provided in all flood hit areas across the country without any discrimination to the beneficiaries, said Farzana Raja, Chairperson BISP here on Wednesday. The poor victims of flood in the Gilgit-Baltistan deserve equal attention and BISP has responded to their needs on immediate basis, she said while talking to Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan, Mehdi Shah, who visited BISP Secretariat.
Mehdi Shah apprised Farzana Raja about the damages in the Gilgit-Baltistan due to flood and said that the poor people of the area need an immediate relief to cope with the enormous problems created by these floods. He urged for an immediate relief effort for the people of Gilgit-Baltistan and said that a large numbers of the flood affectees in the area belong to poor segments of the society and are in dire need of relief.
Farzana Raja assured Chief Minister GB that BISP has already released 10 billion rupees for flood affected beneficiaries across the country and in total Rs 327 million will be disbursed to flood affected BISP beneficiaries in G-B. She said that under this emergency relief package, Rs 12, 000 are being provided to each affected family in 3 equal instalments (Rs 4000 each). She said that the first instalment of Rs 4, 000 has already been released and would be disbursed among the affectees immediately after Eid. Syed Mehdi Shah invited Raja to visit the Gilgit-Baltistan, which she accepted and promised that she would visit the area as soon as possible.