Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Marvi Memon Monday visited Sukkur to spot check ongoing survey for National Socio Economic Registry (NSER) update. She visited houses in Nusrat Colony, Tamachi Village and Bagarji where she interacted with families for their feedback regarding NSER survey. In Sukkur, desk registration was carried out from October 2016 to February 2017 to register households through 113 counters. The 178,531 households were registered against the projected caseload of 174,851.
In July this year, door to door survey has been started to ensure that no household is left unregistered that has surveyed 20,025 households till date. Data comparison between desk registration and door to door survey will help the BISP design a model that will result in a dynamic registry for BISP, a news release said. Speaking on the occasion, she said the NSER being first ever demographic directory of Pakistan was a national asset vital for development planning.
She said over the past four years BISP had made commendable progress by expanding its net and improving its service delivery. The survey for NSER update is fully automated and technology enabled that is being done on tablets to ensure an error free registry. Speaking to enumerators, she said the data collection was a sacred responsibility as the data they had collected today would form the basis of planning in future. She appreciated enumerators for fulfilling this tiresome job of visiting door to door in scorching heat in a responsible manner.
She also visited village Yar Muhammad Ghumro UC Baghargi where she attended training of forty BISP Beneficiary Committees (BBCs) women leaders. She said the potential of silent revolution was in the hands of such women leaders who by leading from the front would change life of hundreds of other BISP beneficiaries. Chairperson BISP visited IBA Sukkur where she interacted with students. Speaking to them, she said youth were harbinger of change and reform.
It could empower communities by lending them support and helping them to overcome the difficulties of life. The BISP was one such platform that provided direct access to the marginalized women. It was national obligation to help the downtrodden in becoming a fruitful member of society. She invited them to participate in "University Poverty Graduation Buddy Programme" of BISP that links youth with the poorest vulnerable women of Pakistan with an aim to help them graduate out of poverty.