The Chairperson of BISP Farzana Raja said "Pakistan People's Party (PPP)' manifesto largely speaks of the social and economic empowerment of the women and the programme is benefiting over three million families in the country." BISP has launched an improved delivery system through Mobile Phone Banking and around 150,000 beneficiaries in Musakhel, Layyah in Punjab, Batgram in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa and Larkana in Sindh are being provided free mobiles in the first phase.
Talking to newsmen here today she said One million registered beneficiaries of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) who have lost their bread earners are being given compensation of Rs 100,000 under Life Insurance scheme. Chairperson BISP, Farzana Raja said that the programme is expediting its efforts for all economic empowerment of deserving women being identified through its nation-wide poverty survey.
The programme would reach five million families under the survey being simultaneously conducted in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and will be completed by June this year. However, the survey has already been completed in compliance with Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochsitan in the province. Farzana said that the survey would enable registered families to get benefit from monthly cash grant, vocational training, returnable under Waseela-e-Haq and Life Insurance. Moreover, Health Insurance facilities would be offered soon to registered beneficiaries, she added. By using Mobile Phone Banking facility, the beneficiaries will be able to receive their cash grant in most convenient and transparent way. The transparency and facilitation of the beneficiaries is the priority of the programme and the whole system is established on modern technology.
She said BISP is not a political programme and it is working for the well being of the downtrodden segments of the society. International aid agencies are quite appreciative of this programme as it is proving to be a comprehensive welfare mechanism for the poor people. Farzana urged the people to support the survey teams for successful completion of the poverty survey so that people in need can be reached out and given their right at their doorstep, thus, it would be a help in achieving BISP's objective of making the country a welfare state.