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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is contemplating to introduce a transparent system of income support programme for needy families with a special focus on widows, orphans and girl child. "Adequate monitoring mechanisms will be established to ensure that resources under these income support programmes are not misused," sources in the PML-N said on Thursday.
The PML-N is also planning to extend education scholarships to orphans, disabled and other needy students in the budget 2013-14 for acquiring skills and higher education. Concept of social entrepreneurship will be introduced to ensure that the vulnerable communities who have been granted additional cash grant for supporting their limited income - do not end being counterproductive, the sources said.
The PML-N wants to extend poorer segments of society from the adverse effects of inflation and national disasters, the sources said, adding: "Special labour-intensive employment programmes will be undertaken, especially in areas affected by insurgency and natural disasters based on small infrastructure or rehabilitation projects which are identified in consultation with the target communities".
In co-operation with the provinces, the new PML-N government expressed resolve to increase the total spending on non-pension social protection from the current level of 1 percent of GDP to at least 2 percent by 2018, the sources claimed. The PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar, while explaining his stance with regard to press reports about Benazir Income Support Programme, said he had launched Rs 34 billion Pakistan Income Support Programme when he was the country's finance minister in 2008. The programme, he added, was aimed at extending financial aid to the poorest of the poor and downtrodden people.
"It was made clear in my proposed scheme that the programme would be free of corruption and the poor would be given financial help after thorough scrutiny and oblivious of any political affiliation," the Senator said. He said that after he quit the ministry, not only the name of programme was changed but the conditions tagged to the programme to protect it from corruption were totally ignored. "This is vindicated from the fact that the PPP has, itself, acknowledged that the names of 750, 000 families from a list of 3.7 million beneficiary families of Benazir Income Support Programme were struck off after an audit report revealed that these were either not poor or did not exist at all," he said.
The Senator said that the programme has been slammed not because it was not beneficial to the poor but due to mismanagement and the poor implementation by the PPP government.
PML-N to introduce income support programme for destitute families | Business Recorder
The PML-N is also planning to extend education scholarships to orphans, disabled and other needy students in the budget 2013-14 for acquiring skills and higher education. Concept of social entrepreneurship will be introduced to ensure that the vulnerable communities who have been granted additional cash grant for supporting their limited income - do not end being counterproductive, the sources said.
The PML-N wants to extend poorer segments of society from the adverse effects of inflation and national disasters, the sources said, adding: "Special labour-intensive employment programmes will be undertaken, especially in areas affected by insurgency and natural disasters based on small infrastructure or rehabilitation projects which are identified in consultation with the target communities".
In co-operation with the provinces, the new PML-N government expressed resolve to increase the total spending on non-pension social protection from the current level of 1 percent of GDP to at least 2 percent by 2018, the sources claimed. The PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar, while explaining his stance with regard to press reports about Benazir Income Support Programme, said he had launched Rs 34 billion Pakistan Income Support Programme when he was the country's finance minister in 2008. The programme, he added, was aimed at extending financial aid to the poorest of the poor and downtrodden people.
"It was made clear in my proposed scheme that the programme would be free of corruption and the poor would be given financial help after thorough scrutiny and oblivious of any political affiliation," the Senator said. He said that after he quit the ministry, not only the name of programme was changed but the conditions tagged to the programme to protect it from corruption were totally ignored. "This is vindicated from the fact that the PPP has, itself, acknowledged that the names of 750, 000 families from a list of 3.7 million beneficiary families of Benazir Income Support Programme were struck off after an audit report revealed that these were either not poor or did not exist at all," he said.
The Senator said that the programme has been slammed not because it was not beneficial to the poor but due to mismanagement and the poor implementation by the PPP government.
PML-N to introduce income support programme for destitute families | Business Recorder
