Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairwoman Farzana Raja on Wednesday said three million children aged between five and 12 years in the beneficiary families would be enrolled in schools during next four years to secure their future.
“Under this initiative, up to three youngest children of each deserving family will be supported through an additional quarterly cash transfer of Rs. 600 per child subject to at least 70 percent attendance,” Farzana Raja said.
The initiative has been taken under ‘Waseela-e-Taleem’ programme with the assistance of the British government, as nine million BISP beneficiary children were unable to attend primary education due to financial constraints, she said.
The programme would initially be launched in 20 districts of the country, she said, adding that four districts from each province and two each from Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan and other districts would be added gradually.
She said, “The BISP conducted poverty survey across the board and no discrimination was made on the basis of creed, caste, ethnicity, religion and socio-economic status.”
