Zubair Qureshi
Newly sworn-in Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Security, Shazia Marri has sought suggestions for improving the payment system of Benazir Income Support Programme and held that it was unfair to remove a large number of deserving persons on the basis of unnecessary filters.
She expressed these views on Friday while chairing a review meeting at the Benazir Income Support Programme head office and discussed the expansion of the programme.
Secretary Ismat Tahira gave a briefing on the programmes and structure of the organization.
Shazia Marri issued instructions to further improve it before the release of next installment. She made a review of eligibility and exclusion criteria for deserving persons in the programme.
She said that it was not right to exclude deserving persons from the program on the basis of foreign visits for attending religious rituals alone.
said that the exclusion of people from Benazir Income Support Program on the basis of mobile spending is unfair.
Shazia Marri said that if people have to be expelled from the programme, then we should first empower them.
