Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is exercising utmost vigilance and care in clearing the last tranche to the service providers as it wants to ensure maximum transparency and proper utilisation of public funds. Shabbir Ahmed, Secretary BISP said this during a meeting with representatives of training providers and institutes, says a press release issued here on Monday.
He added that BISP will make the final payments to service providers only after the finalisation of the Tracer study expected to be completed by September 30, 2014. During the meeting, Secretary BISP listened to the grievances of training providers, shared with them the stance of BISP, and assured the payment of the genuine claims.
Secretary BISP told the participants that the study is ongoing and the payments claims of service providers will be processed accordingly. Thereafter, due claims would be processed for payments. The current management is also working on processing the payments of those service providers/training institutes in 9 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where Tracer study has been completed.
He further added that BISP will soon hold another meeting with the service providers/training institutes of KPK to share the results of Tracer study. The Waseela-e-Rozgar (WeR) programme of BISP was launched in September 2011 and vocational training started in February 2012. Initially, there was a target of imparting vocational trainings to 70,000 beneficiaries. However, so far 57,817 beneficiaries have been provided trainings under the said programme.-PR