Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson Farzana Raja on Wednesday said that BISP would launch Waseele-e-Taleem programme by the end of April.
Talking to PTV, she said that Waseela-e-Taleem programme would enroll one million children in schools from under-privileged families to eradicate poverty in the country.
She said around one million children would be registered in the schools for free education in the first phase. However, the programme had planned to enroll 10 million children.
Farzana said that six million beneficiary families had been included in the programme, however, the number would reach up to seven million after completion of survey in FATA.
To a question, she said that BISP had provided the facility of life insurance to its 2.5 million beneficiary families.
The BISP chairperson said the pilot project under the health insurance scheme being launched in district Faisalabad would benefit 75,000 beneficiary families.
