ISLAMABAD: As Ehsaas– an umbrella of 20 programmes of social safety and also well-being– has finished a fresh poverty survey for 2021 in the country, the variety of Benazir Income Support Programme recipients has actually enhanced to 8.2 million.

The very first BISP survey that was finished in 2011 had 23 variables to determine the deserving people but the fresh one under its brand-new name Ehsaas Kafalat Program (EKP) has 43 variables covering wider range of facets associated with the much less fortunate segments of society.

According to the 2011 survey, there were 4.8 m people registered with the BISP along with those 800,000 beneficiaries including civil servant whose names were eliminated from the list in December 2019 for being “disqualified”.

According to the 2021 information based on the fresh survey, 3.4 m individuals have been contributed to the list of beneficiaries.

Talking with Occur To Sunday, Special Aide to Head Of State on Social Welfare as well as Poverty Relief Dr Sania Nishtar claimed: “We have completed the first-ever digital survey/data of Ehsaas Kafalat (BISP) after a two-year stressful countrywide workout in which thousands of qualified volunteers accompanied by Ehsaas program’s personnel having laptops in their hands went door to door to achieve the work.”

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Dr Nishtar claimed the last BISP study had been conducted through some non-governmental organisations, yet this moment Ehsaas team themselves brought it out with the help of skilled volunteers mostly consisting of teachers. “It is the first-ever electronic hardship study in the country for which 20,000 laptop computers were bought for study teams. Once the survey of a specific location was finished, these laptops were sent to various other locations for the very same purpose,” she claimed, including that the study was validated by a third-party audit.

She disclosed that after performing the survey, her ministry was establishing assistance workdesks in all districts to ensure that those missed out throughout the survey for authentic factors can get themselves signed up. “Until now we have actually established 350 desks. It was our plan to establish these desks in all areas after Ashura,” she included.

Dr Nishtar said the survey would confirm to be the backbone for the provision of monetary help under 20 different systems of the federal government’s enthusiastic Ehsaas programme to the deserving people whose qualification was validated under a mechanism.

With an increase in the variety of beneficiaries, the federal government likewise enhanced the fund for the program to Rs250 billion. “It was Rs116bn in 2018-19, Rs196bn in 2019-20 as well as Rs250bn currently,” she said.

The PM’s assistant said those contributed to the listing of beneficiaries were eligible for different programmes such as Ehsaas Waseela-i-Taleem, Ehsaas Kafalat, Ehsaas Amdan, Ehsaas Nashonuma, Ehsaas interest-free fundings, Ehsaas Langar, Ehsaas scholarship, Ehsaas emergency situation money, Ehsaas Covid-19 fund, Ehsaas Koi Bhooka Na Soye, Ehsaas One-Window, Ehsaas Farming Loans, Mazdoor Ka Ehsaas, and Rehriban plans.

Under the scholarship program, she clarified, women students were provided extra share as they got Rs2,000 stipend each month while young boys received Rs1,500. She claimed 1.3 m recipients had currently been signed up for the interest-free car loans package.

In a similar way, she claimed, 31 Langar Khanas (free meal stalls) under Ehsaas Langar had actually been established. They were being run with the assistance of Saylani Welfare Trust, she added. She said targeted aid was additionally being given to deserving people in all the 4,000 electrical outlets of the energy stores corporation across the nation via their biometric. “This time we are additionally broadening the program to include middle class of the society,” she added.

Clarifying the Rehriban programme, the PM’s assistant said 20 carts were offered to the deserving persons in Islamabad as a pilot task, which would certainly be duplicated in various other parts of the country.

Clarifying the treatment of data collection for electronic destitution study, Dr Nishtar stated the property surveyors checked out homes as well as after gathering the appropriate information transferred it to the Ehsaas head office, which after that reconsidered the information prior to a third-party audit to ensure transparency and eliminate errors.

2 years back, she stated, her ministry had actually removed over 800,000 phony and also ineligible recipients from BISP data consisting of 140,000 government officials in good faith. However, the audit department asked why money given to the authorities had not been recuperated, she stated before discussing that it was the obligation of various other divisions such as the Federal Examination Company to do so.