ISLAMABAD, Jun 18 (APP):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.
A beneficiary child must attend school or college for at least 70 percent of the school or college effective days within a quarter to receive cash transfers from the second quarter and onwards.
The stipends rates for the students are Rs 1,500 per quarter per boy, Rs 2,000 for girl students at the primary level while Rs 2,500 and Rs 3,000 are being paid for boy and girl students respectively.
While for the Higher Secondary level, Rs 3,500 and Rs 4,000 are being paid to the boy and girl students respectively.
The girls are also given a one-time bonus of Rs 3,000 on graduation from primary education.
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