Credible international organisations including the World Bank and the ADB has termed various initiatives of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) a milestone in providing relief to underprivileged and uplift the lives of the poor strata of the population.
They have appreciated the fact that the programme, besides attaining global appreciation for transparent and efficient mechanisms it has adopted, has attained several achievements regarding poverty alleviation.
Besides others, conducting first ever nation-wide targeting survey is being termed unprecedented. The survey was started in October 2010 in all districts of the country, including AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan. Thus, as a result of the transparent and efficient mechanisms adopted by the BISP, the programme has emerged as first ever such initiative in the social sector of the country, which has gained support and trust of various prestigious international organisations.
It is being expected that the number of registered beneficiary families of BISP would rise up to seven million eventually.
With regard to eradication of poverty, the BISP has taken numerous innovative steps besides provision of regular income support to beneficiary families. Under Waseela-e-Rozgar scheme of the BISP, one member from each registered beneficiary family would be imparted modern technical/vocational training to be able to find better income generation opportunities.
Likewise, Waseela-e-Haq scheme is proving to be a huge success in invoking the trend of entrepreneurship among the underprivileged segments of society.
The other initiatives including Waseela-e-Rozgar, Waseela-e-Sahat and Waseela-e-Taleem as well as introduction of the state of the art technology based mechanisms to facilitate beneficiary families have also been termed instrumental and of higher significance pertain to poverty alleviation as well as socio-economic empowerment of women and economically deprived segments of society.
