Waseela-e-Taleem, another innovative step of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), is all set to be launched with the prime objective of poverty alleviation through education. Under the scheme, the conditional grant to beneficiary families would be linked with their school-going children. The scheme would be a latest addition in the various innovative measures of the BISP, including demand driven vocational/technical training programme along with provision of micro-financing to ensure livelihood independence for millions of beneficiary families.
Poverty and ignorance has direct linkage with extreme tendencies in any society and hence, combating poverty has become imperative to eradicate terrorism and create a peaceful and balanced society. Being a catalyst of the socio-economic change in the society, the step can be termed another landmark initiative of BISP with regard to long-term poverty alleviation. The scheme has been envisaged to promote education among the children belonging to downtrodden segment of society and hence help them out in breaking the vicious circle of poverty.
The primary education of beneficiaries’ children is one of the major issues of the poor class in Pakistan. Leading economists of the country agree that the phenomenon of poverty in Pakistan is multi-faceted and needs to be tackled by applying a multi-pronged strategy. In the pursuit of this vision, the government of Pakistan had earlier evolved a comprehensive strategy through BISP, besides taking steps aimed at immediate relief i.e. monthly cash grant to beneficiary families.
