{"id":61635,"date":"2020-02-19T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61635"},"modified":"2020-02-19T17:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:28:56","slug":"govt-give-foodcarts-livestock-assets-to-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-give-foodcarts-livestock-assets-to-poor.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt to provide food carts, livestock, other assets under Ehsaas Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The government has announced its decision to provide free-of-cost food carts, livestock, rickshaws and inputs for small enterprises to 200,000 families across the country under its \u2018Ehsaas Amdan (Income) Programme\u2019, a news source reported. Special Assistant o the Prime Minister (PM) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/new-economic-package-planned-for-poverty-alleviation-in-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Poverty Alleviation (opens in a new tab)\">Poverty Alleviation<\/a> and Social Safety Dr Sania Nishtar expressed her views on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this effect, she stated that PM Imran Khan would inaugurate the programme on February 21. Under this programme, the executive is expected to provide small assets to people living under the poverty line. These assets include livestock worth PKR 60,000, rickshaws, agricultural inputs, food carts and related assets for setting up small enterprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ehsaas-kifalat-programme-set-launch-jan-31.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ehsaas Kifalat programme set for launch on Jan 31 (opens in a new tab)\">Ehsaas Kifalat programme set for launch on Jan 31<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr\nNishtar further stated that under the first phase of the\nproject, the\ngovernment would select\n200,000 families from 23 districts of the four provinces; including 10 districts from\nKhyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),\nseven\nfrom Balochistan and three each\nfrom Punjab and Sindh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The areas selected include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; KP \u2013 Torghar, Upper Kohistan,\nLower Kohistan, Palas Kolai, Shangla, Dera Ismail Khan, North Wazistan, South\nWazistan,\nand Tank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sindh \u2013 Thatta, Badin, Sujawal,\nShikarpur, Umerkot, Kashmore,\nand Tharparkar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Balochistan \u2013 Jhal Magsi, Sherani, and Zhob<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Punjab \u2013 Dera Ghazi Khan, Layyah, and Jhang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/online-system-to-receive-private-donations-for-ehsaas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Online system to receive private donations for Ehsaas Programme under development (opens in a new tab)\">Online system to receive private donations for Ehsaas Programme under development<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\ndistricts were chosen on the basis of human development, poverty and\nfood security levels. Dr Nishtar said that the Ehsaas Amdan Programme would\nbenefit 1.4\nmillion people across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To facilitate this measure, the government has reserved 60% quota for women and 30% for the youth. Moreover, the beneficiaries will also be provided vocational training in order to convert assets into economically-beneficial units. Moreover, the recipients will be offered the \u2018Ehsaas interest-free loan\u2019 scheme in order to acquire finance for their businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-launches-financial-inclusion-initiative-poverty-alleviation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PM launches \u2018Financial Inclusion\u2019 initiative for poverty alleviation (opens in a new tab)\">PM launches \u2018Financial Inclusion\u2019 initiative for poverty alleviation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has announced its decision to provide free-of-cost food carts, livestock, rickshaws and inputs for small enterprises to 200,000 families across the country under its \u2018Ehsaas Amdan (Income) Programme\u2019, a news source reported. Special Assistant o the Prime Minister (PM) on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Dr Sania Nishtar expressed her views on the matter. To this effect, she stated that PM Imran Khan would inaugurate the programme on February 21. Under this programme, the executive is expected to provide small assets to people living under the poverty line. These assets include livestock worth PKR 60,000, rickshaws, agricultural inputs, food carts and related assets for setting up small enterprises. Read: Ehsaas Kifalat programme set for launch on Jan 31 Dr Nishtar further stated that under the first phase of the project, the government would select 200,000 families from 23 districts of the four provinces; including 10 districts from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), seven from Balochistan and three each from Punjab and Sindh. The areas selected include: \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; KP \u2013 Torghar, Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan, Palas Kolai, Shangla, Dera Ismail Khan, North Wazistan, South Wazistan, and Tank \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sindh \u2013 Thatta, Badin, Sujawal, Shikarpur, Umerkot, Kashmore, and Tharparkar \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Balochistan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":60320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15020],"tags":[15409,20059,13725,20060],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-ehsaas","10":"tag-poverty-alleviation","11":"tag-social-welfare-complexes","12":"tag-women-empowerment","13":"cat-15017-id","14":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt to give food carts, livestock and other assets to poor - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has announced its decision to provide free-of-cost food carts, livestock, rickshaws and inputs for small enterprises to 200,000 families across the country under its \u2018Ehsaas Amdan (Income) Programme\u2019.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-give-foodcarts-livestock-assets-to-poor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt to give food carts, livestock and other assets to poor - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has announced its decision to provide free-of-cost food carts, livestock, rickshaws and inputs for small enterprises to 200,000 families across the country under its \u2018Ehsaas Amdan (Income) Programme\u2019.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-give-foodcarts-livestock-assets-to-poor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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