Karachi: With the highest number of COVID-19 patients in Pakistan, the Sindh government will launch a cash transfer program in September that will provide money to coronavirus patients in the disadvantaged sectors of society.
This will be the first financial assistance programme for the disadvantaged in Pakistan. A resolution in this regard taken at a meeting of the sindh government’s high-level committee to lead the affairs of its program on social coverage and economic empowerment of the oppressed masses of the province due to the emergence of COVID-19 conditioning. Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, sindh’s leading secretary, who is the highest bureaucrat in the province, presided over the assembly.
He talked about the online banking method that would be used to distribute cash to disadvantaged coronavirus sufferers in the province. The provincial government will also seek assistance from the National Database and Registration Authority and other federal agencies to determine the identity and socioeconomic prestige of program beneficiaries.
Social coverage plans
A sum of Rs 20 billion has been set aside in the Sindh government budget for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the province’s money transfer program.
Shah informed the assembly that a total of Rs 34 billion had been set aside in the new provincial government budget to act on social coverage plans in Sindh due to the pandemic. These projects will be carried out in the agriculture, livestock, small industries, simple-term loans, box-like startups of data technology. Three billion rupees have been set aside for the agricultural sector to provide subsidies to farmers in the province.
The chief secretary said five billion rupees would be spent on easy-to-use loans to small business traders in the province who had been severely affected by the country’s blockade measures in the past against the spread of coronavirus. 1.2 billion rupees will be spent on the monetary viability of new IT companies. The province’s livestock sector will attract an investment of 500 million rupees from the provincial government, as the plan envisages the creation of a synthetic insemination center in each and every town in the province. Each year, another 120 people will be trained in cases similar to synthetic insemination. Cattle owners in the province will obtain animals from the most productive farm animal breeds to increase the province’s dairy production.
There are a total of 122,373 patients with coronavirus in Sindh as of August 5, 2002. A total of 2,245 (1.83 percent) coVID-19 patients have died in Sindh so far. Some 113,996 patients (93.15%) coronavirus patients have recovered so far.
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