Daily Times
April 20, 2021
Easypaisa, Pakistan’s leading digital payments platform, has inked an agreement with the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Saidu Sharif, Swat to bring convenient fee payment solutions to students of the region. This service will simplify fee payments including but not limited to Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary School Certificate exams, Gazette, Certificate/DMC verification, and miscellaneous fees.
The agreement was signed between senior representatives of Telenor Microfinance Bank / Easypaisa and BISE Swat. Under the accord, students from far-flung areas of District Swat, Shangla, and Buner will be able to make payments digitally without having to physically visit bank branches. These improvements will open new horizons as well as create more opportunities for locals to embrace digital payments.
Japan supports rehabilitation of flood-damaged roads in KPK
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Japan approves disbursement of over Rs.820 million
The Government of Japan has approved the disbursement of Rs.820,686,231 from the Counter Value Fund to support the “Project of Rehabilitation of Flood Damaged Rural Roads in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). The Embassy of Japan issued a Note Verbale for its approval on January 6, 2021.
Reinforce agriculture-based rural economy by road rehabilitation
Japan has received a request from Pakistan to help restore rural roads damaged by the 2015 flood, which killed 238 people, affected 1.933 million people and damaged 10,716 houses (Annual Flood Report 2015, Ministry of Water & Power). In this project, one section (8km) in the District Swat and two sections (12km and 9km respectively) in the District Haripur among the roads damaged by the flood will be rehabilitated.