How much money was approved for workers and daily wage earners? Big news

Another promise from the Prime Minister was hoped to be fulfilled. The distribution of money among the laborers and daily wage earners has been approved under which Rs. 75 billion will be distributed among the said persons.

According to Dawn News, the Cabinet's Economic Co-ordination Committee (ECC) has allocated Rs 75 billion to distribute among workers and daily wage earners through the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). It is part of a Rs.

The ECC meeting was chaired by Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Finance Advisor, who approved the emergency cash assistance mechanism for those workers whose jobs have been affected by the Corona Virus global epidemic. Poverty Alleviation Division and BISP worked.

The BISP Board approved the use of the Ehsas Emergency Cash Category 3 eligibility procedure to identify recipients of Ehsas Mazdoor (Category 4).

According to Dawn News, the verification process will be done on the basis of BISP survey and registration of National Identity Registration in NADRA. Applications for inclusion of recipients in category 4 should be received only through Ehsas Labor Portal. Thus, Rs. 12,000 in cash (lump sum assistance) will be distributed through the existing BISP payment system. The four provinces, the federal capital, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, in terms of their population, have a sense of labor assistance. We will allocate quotas for

It may be recalled that on May 3, the Prime Minister had announced that the funds raised through the Covid 19 Epidemic Relief Assistance Fund 2020 would be used for workers and daily wage earners whose jobs were severely affected by the lockdown.