The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has so far enrolled 11.8 million children into schools through Benazir Taleemi Wazaif initiative. According to an official source, a total of 3.0 million children had been enrolled under this scheme during July- March FY2023.
So far, Rs 63.3 billion have been disbursed since the inception of the Benazir Taleemi Wazaif initiative out of which Rs 23.4 billion have been disbursed from July to March, FY2023. In pursuance of the commitment to provide Universal Primary Education as a part of SDGs, the government launched a Co-Responsibility Cash Transfer initiative for providing additional cash per quarter to BISP beneficiary families in October 2012 for Primary Education. Since July 01, 2021, the scope of the programme has been expanded from Primary to Secondary and Higher Secondary level and is currently operational all over the country.
The overall objective of this initiative is to encourage education through regular cash transfers to invest in human capital development. B-form/ CRC verification through the NADRA database is mandatory for the enrollment of the child in the programme.—APP
