ISLAMABAD: Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Senator Rubina Khalid Thursday introduced that the wide variety of households benefiting from BISP will attain 10 million by way of the quit of this 12 months. She expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for growing the monetary finances of the BISP, with a view to bring about the quarterly installment of the Benazir Kafaalat being raised from 10,500 rupees to 13,500 rupees starting in January 2025. She shared these remarks at the same time as speakme to media representatives at the zonal office of BISP in Gilgit. Senator Rubina Khalid stated that the registration of deserving households is ongoing via Dynamic Registration Centers throughout the u . S . A .. Additionally, re-certification of already registered households is in progress to evaluate the socio-economic situations of eligible households. She also highlighted the approaching launch of the Benazir Skill Training Program for deserving women and their families. She said this initiative will provide education in keeping with nearby and global requirements, enabling beneficiaries to get right of entry to employment possibilities. The application goals to gain fundamental goals: to improve the best of life of the deserving households and empower them economically, and to create area for new deserving households to sign up for this system, she delivered. Rubina Khalid emphasized that BISP, like different worldwide social safety applications, offers extra economic assist to assist deserving households meet their each day costs. The application, she stated, is the imaginative and prescient of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and turned into applied via President Asif Ali Zardari. According to the choice of the President, monetary assistance underneath this programme is given to the woman individuals of deserving households, giving negative girls in Pakistan each recognition and monetary empowerment. While discussing different initiatives under BISP, Senator Rubina Khalid noted that beneath the Benazir Taleemi Wazaif initiative, children from deserving households are furnished instructional scholarships, contingent on 70% college attendance, with higher monetary allocations for women than boys. Additionally, beneath the Benazir Nashonuma application, monetary help and nutritious meals are supplied to pregnant and lactating moms, as well as children up to 2 years old, to fight stunting. Earlier, all through her visit to the BISP Gilgit office, Senator Rubina Khalid interacted with the deserving girls and listened to their concerns, and told the BISP body of workers to address their issues directly. As part of a tree-planting pressure, Senator Rubina Khalid additionally planted a sapling at the BISP Gilgit office.
