Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Waseela-e-Taleem (WeT) initiative of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is defining the future of Pakistan by educating its children. Having enrolled 1.3 million children in primary schools in 32 districts across Pakistan,

This was stated by Minister of State and BISP Chairperson Marvi Memon during the wrap-up meeting of Joint Implementation Support Mission of World Bank and Department for International Development (DFID) at the BISP Secretariat.

She said that BISP targets to increase this number to 1.6 million by June 2017 and expand WeT up to 50 districts by December 2018.

During the meeting, the progress on pilot phase of ongoing door-to-door BISP resurvey for National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) update was shared with the mission. The modalities of national roll out of resurvey after pilot phase were also discussed. The joint mission of World Bank and DFID provided their valuable input and suggestions. An important Disbursement Linked Indicator (DLI) of DFID is related to strengthening of WeT. During the discussion over this DLI, it was considered necessary to further strengthen the human resource of WeT in order to build upon the unprecedented success and impact of WeT.