BISP stipend being increased to Rs 6,000: Sania Nishtar

KARACHI: The Special Assistant to Prime on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Dr Sania Nishtar has said that the quarterly stipend under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is being increased from Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000.

While talking at an open court (Khuli Kachehri) in Karachi’s Malir, Nishtar said that the stipend was being increased in the instructions of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

She said the increased sum of stipend would be dispensed as monthly installments and every beneficiary would get Rs 2,000 in the first week of each month.

Dr Sania Nishtar told that every woman beneficiary of the scheme would have a bank account as special arrangements have been made for evolving this banking system.

She said the women beneficiaries would be able to draw the BISP stipend while using an ATM card. She said that she often disguised herself in a Burqa (veil) to visit Islamabad to gain firsthand knowledge about the beneficiaries of the BISP in the capital city.