ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Sania Nishtar has said that the government has decided to exclude the non-deserving people from Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) to bring transparency and merit in the program.
Addressing media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Dr. Sania Nishtar said action will also be taken against non-deserving people who benefited from the program.
Dr. Sania Nishtar said around eight hundred thousand people have been disqualified from the program to give space to the deserving people.
She said the measures have been taken to give due rights to only deserving people adding that the whole procedure for inclusion in BISP has been made apolitical.
She said the disqualification criteria include travel history of the member, ownership of vehicle, availing facility of executive services for passport and National Identity Card and service in government sectors.
She said inclusion of 216 villages alongside Line of Control in Kifalat Program is another milestone of Ehsaas Programme. She said people of these villages are the most deserving ones due to their frequent economic losses as a result of Indian firing.
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