Karachi: The federally-managed Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and Sindh government’s School Education and Literacy Department have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote school education among children of the BISP beneficiaries in the province that represent poorest of the poor in society.
The partnership is aimed at motivating the children in Sindh to attain education up to higher secondary school level without dropping out in order to enable them to become productive members of the society.
An educational stipend programme for the children of the BISP beneficiaries, who attend classes regularly, is the cornerstone of this policy.
Secretary for Sindh School Education Department Ahmed Bakhsh Narejo and Director-General Waseela-e-Taleem of BISP Naveed Akbar signed the agreement.
The “Waseela-e-Taleem” (the educational initiative) envisages a payment of Rs2,000 stipend on quarterly basis to each of the child between four to 12 years and enrolled in the primary school classes.
The stipend will be Rs3,000 for children between eight and 18 years and who are enrolled in classes six to 10 of schools.
The students enrolled in Class 11 and 12 will get a quarterly stipend of Rs3,500. The students are required to show 70 per cent attendance in classes to qualify for this scheme.
The data of the scholarship programme will be digitised to increase enrollment in primary and secondary school classes and to minimise the dropout rate of the students belonging to the most vulnerable segments of the society.
The scholarship scheme will benefit around 700,000 school students of the destitute families all over Pakistan as the federal government has reserved Rs1.5 billion in the new fiscal year 2021-22 for the purpose.
There are around 1.9 million beneficiaries of BISP in Sindh alone whose eligible school going children will get this scholarship.
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