ISLAMABAD: Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) Chairperson Marvi Memom has said that the cooperation of chambers of commerce and employer associations was of paramount importance to engage BISP beneficiaries in domestic labour market.
She said this while exchanging views with ICCI Senior Vice President Sheikh Pervez Ahmed and Vice President Sheikh Abdul Waheed during a meeting in her office.
She said that BISP was a social safety net taking care of around 5.1 million beneficiaries worst hit by the high inflation and government was exploring different opportunities for the placement of BISP beneficiaries in domestic labour market for which cooperation of trade bodies was crucial. She said ICCI cooperation could play an important role in coordinating with BISP for placement/training of BISP beneficiaries through Corporate Social Responsibility projects. She said she would soon visit ICCI to brief its members about further detail of this program.
Speaking on the occasion, Sheikh Pervez Ahmed and Sheikh Abdul Waheed appreciated this proposal. They said it would enable the BISP beneficiaries to engage in productive activities and earn a decent living. They said government should ensure complete transparency in BISP so that genuine and deserving people could take benefit of this important social safety net program.
They assured that Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry would cooperate with the government in its efforts for placement/training of BISP beneficiaries so that they could be absorbed in the labour market and thus play positive role in the economic development of the country apart from uplifting their own living standards. He said this initiative was also in the interest of business community as the improvement in purchasing power of BISP beneficiaries would help in promoting business activities.
