{"id":68142,"date":"2020-07-17T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=68142"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:00:33","slug":"funds-of-ehsaas-programme-increased-nishtar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-of-ehsaas-programme-increased-nishtar.html","title":{"rendered":"Funds of Ehsaas programme increased: Nishtar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The government has announced to increase the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme from PKR 144 billion to PKR 203 billion in a bid to facilitate the public demographic hailing from the low-income segments of the society, according to a news report published on July 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-launch-second-phase-of-ehsaas-emergency-cash-programme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to launch second phase of Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briefing a press conference on Tuesday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Safety and Poverty Alleviation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nadra-process-biometric-identification-ehsaas-beneficiaries-24-hrs-dr-nishtar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sania Nishtar<\/a> said that almost half of the national population will be covered with the said expansion. She said that under this programme \u2013 launched on April 9 \u2013 12.86 million beneficiaries across the country have received a one-time cash assistance, totalling to PKR 155.64 billion. The one-time assistance was in addition to PKR 144 billion and over PKR 10 billion were distributed form other resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/budget-2020-21-govt-to-reserve-pkr-200bn-for-ehsaas-programme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Budget 2020-21: Govt to reserve PKR 200bn for Ehsaas Programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the initial phase of the programme, some 12 million families were given a four-month stipend of worth PKR 12,000 \u2013 and now with the expansion of the programme, it will be able to accommodate around 17 million families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nishtar said that the government\u2019s largest social protection initiatives \u2018Ehsaas\u2019 is playing a lead role in expanding social safety nets and mitigating the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has announced to increase the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme from PKR 144 billion to PKR 203 billion in a bid to facilitate the public demographic hailing from the low-income segments of the society, according to a news report published on July 17. Read: Govt to launch second phase of Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme Briefing a press conference on Tuesday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Safety and Poverty Alleviation Sania Nishtar said that almost half of the national population will be covered with the said expansion. She said that under this programme \u2013 launched on April 9 \u2013 12.86 million beneficiaries across the country have received a one-time cash assistance, totalling to PKR 155.64 billion. The one-time assistance was in addition to PKR 144 billion and over PKR 10 billion were distributed form other resources. Read: Budget 2020-21: Govt to reserve PKR 200bn for Ehsaas Programme Under the initial phase of the programme, some 12 million families were given a four-month stipend of worth PKR 12,000 \u2013 and now with the expansion of the programme, it will be able to accommodate around 17 million families. Nishtar said that the government\u2019s largest social protection initiatives \u2018Ehsaas\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":68152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[26469,34947],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-ehsaas-emergency-cash-programme","9":"tag-funds-of-ehsaas-programme-increased-nishtar","10":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Funds of Ehsaas programme increased: Nishtar - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government has announced to increase the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme from PKR 144 billion to PKR 203 billion in a bid to facilitate the public\" \/>\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\/funds-of-ehsaas-programme-increased-nishtar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Funds of Ehsaas programme increased: Nishtar - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government has announced to increase the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme from PKR 144 billion to PKR 203 billion in a bid to facilitate the public\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-of-ehsaas-programme-increased-nishtar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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