BISP disburses Rs25b to over 1mln flood affected families

ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has so far distributed Rs25,041,000,000 among 1,001,640 flood affected families in a transparent manner across the country.

An amount of Rs25,000 per family is being provided to the flood affected families of Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab under Flood Relief Cash Assistance.

In Balochistan, 127,567 flood affected families have received Rs3,189,175,000; 600,150 families have received Rs15,003,750,000 in Sindh; 122,882 families have received Rs3,072,050,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 151,041 families of Punjab have received Rs4,027,000,000.

On Friday, 9,120 flood affected families received cash assistance from different campsites established in flood hit areas of Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.

A control room has been established at Benazir Income Support Program headquarters to ensure smooth payments.

 

 

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