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Dr Sania says Ehsaas Programme continuing without any discrimination
Dr Sania Nishtar. PHOTO: TWITTER
ISLAMABAD:
Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Poverty Alleviation and Chairperson of Ehsaas Programme Dr Sania Nishtar on Monday said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was taking all possible steps to provide opportunities to young girls by extending scholarships programme on merit. We have started an undergraduate scholarship programme for females to lessen the educational burden from their parents, she said in an interview with a private television channel.
Ehsaas Programme was continuing unabatedly across the country, she said adding there was no discrimination with anyone in that regard.
WB recognises ‘Ehsaas Emergency Cash’ among top social protection globally
Islamabad
May 16, 2021
Islamabad : The World Bank has just released a report on “global social protection responses to COVID-19”. This report is called the “living paper” and it is a partnership effort involving 18 coauthors and a large number of contributors; the paper presents a 650-page volume and accompanying database documenting how countries and territories are planning, implementing or completing social protection measures in the context of the pandemic.
The report states that there has been “an exponential growth in social protection measures between March 20, 2020 and May 14, 2021 and that a total of 3,333 social protection measures have been planned or implemented in 222 countries or territories”.
The World Bank has recently released the report on global social protection responses to Covid-19.
The report is a partnership effort involving 18 co-authors. It presents a 650-page volume and accompanying database documenting how countries and territories are planning, implementing or completing social protection measures in the context of the pandemic.
The report states that there has been an exponential growth in social protection measures between March 20 last year and May 14 this year and that 3,333 social protection measures have been planned or implemented in 222 countries or territories.
Pakistan ranks fourth in terms of the number of people covered and third in terms of percentage of population globally covered amongst those that covered over 100 million people.