ISLAMABAD: Minister of State and Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson Marvi Memon has asked the masses to be vigilant as fake BISP survey forms are being sold.
According to a report, fake survey forms of the BISP are being sold to poor masses prior of its official launching. People posing themselves as agents of BISP are selling the BISP survey forms at different prices ranging from Rs50 to Rs100.
The BISP is going to conduct nationwide survey in 2016 to register more women to make them its beneficiaries and remove the ineligible from the beneficiaries’ list. But before the start of survey forms some fraudulent people have started sale of fake forms to the masses.
The BISP chairperson reiterated that in the pilot phase, resurvey would be initiated by middle of this year in fifteen districts and a tribal agency. The district includes Mirpur (AJK), Charsadda, Lakki Marwat, Haripur (KP), Chakwal, Layyah, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur (Punjab), Jacobabad, Sukkar, Thatta (Sindh), Gilgit (Gilgit-Baltistan), Qila Saifullah,, Kech, Nasirabad (Balochistan) and Mohammad Agency (FATA). After completion of the pilot phase, national roll out of resurvey will be started.
The BISP chairperson said that resurvey form would be free of cost once resurvey gets initiated, adding, “If anyone asks for money in return for resurvey form it should be reported immediately to the nearest police station.”
The BISP Case Management team head was also present to guide the callers on their problems. The complaints can also be made at BISP hotline. As a result of previous Nationwide Poverty Scorecard Survey in 2010-11, the BISP is the only National Socio-economic Registry (NSER) of the country.
It has data of almost 27 million households across Pakistan. It enabled BISP to identify eligible households through the application of a Proxy Means Test (PMT) that determines welfare status of the household on a scale between 0-100.
According to this NSER, 7.7 million deserving families were identified living below cut-off score of 16.17. Out of 7.7 million, the BISP is providing financial assistance to 5.2 million at this point of time.
