ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to redesign the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and will work out a new policy for the anti-poverty scheme, BISP chairman Enver Baig said yesterday.
In fact, all the ongoing schemes will undergo ‘redesigning and restructuring’, according to Baig.
In a preliminary step, the government will conduct a poverty survey to identify ‘the poorer of the poor in the country’, Baig said.
The government has allocated Rs75bn to run BISP’s affairs and will make sure that the maximum amount is spent on skill development schemes, he added.
“Only the poorer of the poor will get benefits from the BISP,” he said. “Under this programme, we don’t want to make people beggars anymore. Begging bowls will not work anymore under this programme.”
The newly appointed BISP chairman also claimed that massive fraud could be unearthed in ‘Waseela-e-Haq Programme’ if the case is sent to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) or the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Baig said he sensed there was something ‘fishy’ about this programme.
This programme too will be redesigned as only four out of 53 cases in Islamabad have been proved authentic, according to him. INTERNEWS
