Marvi seeks KP’s help to expand BISP

PESHAWAR: Minister of State and Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson Marvi Memon has urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to help enrol more deserving persons in the programme. During a meeting with KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Friday, she said there was a need to extend regular financial help to needy women of those areas of the tribal belt where life had restored following the successful Operation Zarb-e-Azb by enrolling them in the BISP. She said Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, on behalf of the prime minister, recently announced increasing the monthly stipend of BISP beneficiaries from Rs 1,500 to 1,700, adding that the amount would be given with arrears from July 1, 2015. She also urged the KP government to enrol children of Waseela-e-Taleem programme in educational institutions and stressed the need to launch a mobilisation campaign with active involvement of departments concerned to bring more deserving persons under the BISP. Earlier, she visited a BISP office at Nowshera and addressed the beneficiaries. She said the handicraft work of the beneficiaries would be promoted through E-commerce. She said 45,000 BISP beneficiaries committees were operating across the country and creating awareness among women about their rights.