The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is providing immediate relief to the poor people, enabling them to absorb the shock of rising prices of food and fuel, said World Bank’s documentation mission head Diana Coulter on Wednesday.
She visited the BISP cash grant beneficiaries in Sohrab Palari Village in Rahimabad Detho and the BISP Distribution Card Centre at Latifabad in Hyderabad.
The delegation was accompanied by BISP Hyderabad Director Abdul Majeed Soomro.
Coulter said that within a short span, the BISP has made remarkable progress by providing much needed relief to the poor families by empowering women.
The World Bank delegation inquired about the impact of cash grants in their lives from the BISP beneficiaries.
Appreciating the efforts of the government in supporting the poor and needy people, the beneficiaries prayed for slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
Soomro said that BISP will distribute cash grants amongst the eligible BISP families through Benazir Cards throughout the country in collaboration with banks instead of post offices to avoid delays and other complaints in the current delivery mechanism.
The BISP head was directed to adopt more efficient and technologically advanced mechanism of delivering BISP funds.
The delegation was told by women that the Benazir Card system is faster and transparent than the system of postal payments.
