The district-wise number of beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) suggests that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani’s home district Multan is amongst the poorest districts in the country, besides Thatta and Muzaffargarh.
According to a written reply submitted in the National Assembly by Minister Incharge of the Cabinet division on Thursday, Thatta takes the lead jointly viz-a-viz the number of beneficiaries of the programme and pending cases taking the tally to 196,867 followed by Multan with the number reaching up to 196,486 cases and Muzaffargarh with 172,524 cases out of the total 5.81 million beneficiaries of the programme across the country.
In Multan, Thatta and Muzaffargarh, 119,612, 98,927 and 127,725 persons are benefiting from BISP respectively and 76,874, 97,940 and 44,799 cases are pending due to non-availability of the Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC). The minister incharge of the Establishment Division told the House that out of the total policy actions suggested in the Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan, 35 have been implemented and 26 were under implementation.
