Survey being held to register women living below poverty line: Shazia Marri

Hyderabad: A survey is being carried out to register women living below the poverty line so that more deserving women could be included in the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). Currently, a total of 617 Dynamic Registry Centres are functioning countrywide to carry out the survey.

Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Security Shazia Atta Marri said this on Monday as she visited the Benazir Development Centre established in the Rural Health Centre Jam Nawaz Ali.

Talking to the media during the visit, she said the Pakistan Peoples Party had always organised programmes for the welfare of the poor class. She said 770,000 pregnant women, newborns and lactating women registered in a development programme had been provided nutritious food to address malnutrition.

She explained that food under the programme was provided to women and children up to the age of two years, and it produced good results on the health of the mothers and their children.

Shazia said the government had distributed Rs70 billion among the flood victims in a timely manner and it was working continuously for the rehabilitation of the flood victims. She said the government had also extended the scope of the Benazir Kafalat Programme and through it nine million families were being given Rs8,750 on a quarterly basis.

Sanghar Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Ishaq Gad, District Health Officer Dr Faiz Muhammad Marri, Regional Director PPHI Fida Hussain Lashari and other officers were also present on the occasion.