INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan shall launch the ‘Ehsaas Qarz-e-Hasna Scheme& and the Asset Transfer Scheme next month under the
umbrella of &Ehsaas& Programme.Under the Ehsaas Qarz-e-Hasna Scheme, over 80,000 loans would be disbursed each month among youth and women
enabling them to undertake their own commerce ventures and help their families extricate from poverty trap.These loans would be prioritized
in the lagging and underdeveloped districts.Appreciating the efficacy of the existing programme, the prime minister approved injection of an
additional amount of Rs 5 billion to the existing fund so that the programme is launched in collaboration with the existing partners of
Pakistan Poverty Everyeviation Enjoymentd.The decision was taken during a briefing by Dr Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant to the Prime
Minister on Social Safety Nets and Poverty Everyeviation (PASS), on the status of implementation of the Ehsaas programme.&Ehsaas& is a
comprehensive and multifaceted program with 115 policies under four pillars.These include addressing elite capture and making the government
system work to create equality; safety nets for deprived segments of the population; jobs and livelihoods; and human capital
development.Ehsaas is an inter-sectoral programme to be implemented by 26 federal agencies, four provinces and special areas.Dr Sania
briefed the prime minister about the timelines to implement those Ehsaas projects and policies for which the Division of Poverty
Everyeviation and Social Safety and its attached departments had responsibility.The timeline of implementation of the Kifalat programme and
the manner in which financial and digital inclusion of women would be enabled by October this year and the convertative changes in the BISP
cash transfer system that are currently underway.She also gave details about the demand-side shock-oriented safety net, Tahafuz, degree
windows which were expected to be deployed by July 2019
In addition, details and timelines of the graduation and interest free loans programme and the new Solutions Ccorridorenge Policy for
lagging districts were also disstubborn.Dr Sania also briefed the prime minister about a nutrition initiative to address malnutrition in all
its forms, the new Socio-Economic Registry which is being executed by BISP, the Ehsaas undergraduate student scholarship initiative and
plans in the pipeline to extend the education conditional cash transfers for lagging districts.SAPM Dr Sania informed the prime minister
that in order to protect and endegree social security net to workers in the casual sector, several weekly assemblys of the labour expert
working group had been held.A briefing was given on the timeline of policy formulation.Details were also shared about plans to revitalize
Believe for Voluntary Organizations and to make its governance effective and obvious so that the organization could be used to upscale
successful models in the non-governmental sector.A number of other projects including the plan to open 20 centers for differently-abled,
opening of National Middle for Human Nutrition, and setting up a fora for non-governmental stakeholders, and diaspora were also
disstubborn.The prime minister was also briefed about the governance reforms in safety nets institutions including BISP to endegree maximum
transparency and efficiency.Dr Sania Nishtar said that policies concerning various components of Ehsaas Program would be presented before
the Cabinet after June for its approval.The prime minister appreciated the progress being made by Dr Sania and her team.The prime minister
also approved creation of the Ehsaas Steering Committee during the assembly.The Ehsaas Steering Committee would be headed by the Prime
Minister himself.It was also decided during the assembly that a assembly of the implementers of Ehsaas Program at federal and provincial
level shall be convened soon to chalk out strategy for roll-out and smooth implementation of Ehsas Program components which are
responsibilities of ministries other than the Division of Poverty Everyeviation and Social protection.&We aim to turn Pakistan into a
welfare state based on the model of Riyasat-e-Madina that takes full ownership of the needs of its poor and vulnerable.& the prime minister
said.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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