Dr. Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, says the payment process under Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme will start from Wednesday to support the vulnerable segments of society, affected due to lockdown amid Coronavirus threat.
The government would start one off Rs 12000 emergency cash transfer to 12 million poor families facing economic hardship following lockdown of the country subsequent to coronavirus under Prime Minister’s relief package.
The programme will benefit the deserving people from all the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, through allocating quota as per census.
The deserving families would get this cash assistance after biometric verification through over 18,065 sale points or retail shops of Habib Bank Limited and Bank Al-Falah across Pakistan.
