Benazir Income Support Program has spread to every nook and corner of the Pakistan and millions of people are getting benefited through this visionary and grand scheme. This scheme has reached in almost every village, town and the city of the Pakistan regardless of the geography and the political or religious affiliation.
BISP is also giving [...]
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday gave a go-ahead to the Life Insurance Scheme and the Benazir Mobile Banking Service under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
The Life Insurance Scheme will be launched on January 1, 2011 with the collaboration of the State Life Insurance Corporation, while the Benazir Mobile Banking Service will be [...]
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (Navtec) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) here on Monday for provision of vocational training to the BISP beneficiaries.
The MoU was signed by the Federal Minister/Chairperson BISP Farzana Raja and Chairman Navtec Adnan A Khawaja at [...]
In every budget, the government announced the salary increases of 20 to 25% in the salaries of the government employees. Only some million of people benefit from this salary increase, while the taxation and levies and other cruelties in the budget affect the whole nation, which is not government employees. This year they have announced [...]
During the first round of Pak-American Strategic Dialogues the US announced to help Pakistan in the sectors of energy and agriculture. It declared to give 125 million dollars to Pakistan for three thermal power projects. It will also provide financial aid to Pakistan for Benazir Income Support Programme. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Foreign Minister told [...]
UNFORTUNATELY the poor and underprivileged people of Pakistan have been suffering due to lack of a comprehensive social protection system. It goes to the credit of the present government that has launched BISP as a tool for enacting a comprehensive social safety net catering to the needs of the ‘poorest of the poor’ of the [...]
It was a fine step by the present government to offer some financial help to the people who are very needy and poor. Though there were many unanswered question as how it will be decided as who actually deserves the aid from the BISP program, nonetheless the scheme was a good idea. Though the amount [...]
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) will start its National Poverty Survey in 21 districts by the end of December to identify more deserving families.
BISP Chairperson Farzana Raja said that the programme would benefit five million families by June 2010 and efforts were continuing to reach the maximum number of people. Initially, the pilot project [...]
The current Gilani administration has taken a very commendable step which is aimed at empowering and enabling the employees of the public sector organization. They are offering 12% stock options to the employees of their respective organization.
The program Benazir Employees Stock Option Scheme offers stock options from the 80 public organization. This has been lauded [...]
Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has been initiated by Government of Pakistan with initial allocation of Rs.34 billion (US $ 425 million approximately) for the year 2008-09 which is the third largest allocation in the total budget and is 0.3% of the GDP for the year 2008-09. The Programme has been initiated to partially offset [...]
