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(Via Daily Dawn) CHITRAL, Nov 9: The local elders, including leaders of Pakistan People’s Party, have complained that government has ignored poor in distribution of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) cards in the district.
“The BISP cards have been allotted to undeserving persons in Chitral while needy and poor have been ignored,” they told Dawn. They said that last year BISP had conducted a survey in the district through Aga Khan Rural Support Programme to identify poor but needy people were deprived of getting cards.
Shah Murad Baig, district information secretary of PPP, said that people of Chitral had pinned great hopes on the much
trumpeted survey and expected a fair distribution of cards for financial assistance but all their hopes were shattered as the revised list contained names of undeserving people. “The gross anomalies in the list of BISP beneficiaries are likely to bring a bad name to the government, which is trying to use it as lever to augment its popularity among the people,” Mr Baig said.
The district president of People’s Students Federation, Qazi Waqar Iqbal, also expressed similar views and demanded of the government to cancel the list.
“I will meet Farzana Raja, chairperson of BISP, to bring into her knowledge the mass anomalies in the list,” he said.
Maulana Afzal, a social worker, said that unjust distribution of BISP cards disappointed people of Chitral and they lost
confidence in the programme. He complained that Pakistan Baitul Maal already stopped its assistance to the poor as its funds were diverted to BISP.
“I know a man, who has recently retired from a bank where he served as an officer. The names of his wife and daughter are also included in the BISP list,” said a local.
Abdul Haq, former nazim of Broze union council, said that people suffering from abject poverty were excluded from the list while BISP cards were distributed among influential people having political affiliations.
He also criticised the survey team of AKRSP for posting fictitious values in the data-base of the survey system to benefit certain people.
Regarding the survey process, an official of AKRSP, when contacted, said that they had just gathered the data in the given format of BISP that was designed to measure accurately the magnitude of poverty in every household in the district.
“The BISP cards have been allotted to undeserving persons in Chitral while needy and poor have been ignored,” they told Dawn. They said that last year BISP had conducted a survey in the district through Aga Khan Rural Support Programme to identify poor but needy people were deprived of getting cards.
Shah Murad Baig, district information secretary of PPP, said that people of Chitral had pinned great hopes on the much
trumpeted survey and expected a fair distribution of cards for financial assistance but all their hopes were shattered as the revised list contained names of undeserving people. “The gross anomalies in the list of BISP beneficiaries are likely to bring a bad name to the government, which is trying to use it as lever to augment its popularity among the people,” Mr Baig said.
The district president of People’s Students Federation, Qazi Waqar Iqbal, also expressed similar views and demanded of the government to cancel the list.
“I will meet Farzana Raja, chairperson of BISP, to bring into her knowledge the mass anomalies in the list,” he said.
Maulana Afzal, a social worker, said that unjust distribution of BISP cards disappointed people of Chitral and they lost
confidence in the programme. He complained that Pakistan Baitul Maal already stopped its assistance to the poor as its funds were diverted to BISP.
“I know a man, who has recently retired from a bank where he served as an officer. The names of his wife and daughter are also included in the BISP list,” said a local.
Abdul Haq, former nazim of Broze union council, said that people suffering from abject poverty were excluded from the list while BISP cards were distributed among influential people having political affiliations.
He also criticised the survey team of AKRSP for posting fictitious values in the data-base of the survey system to benefit certain people.
Regarding the survey process, an official of AKRSP, when contacted, said that they had just gathered the data in the given format of BISP that was designed to measure accurately the magnitude of poverty in every household in the district.
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