ISLAMABAD (National Times) – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Shazia Marri on Monday while holding Pakistan Tehteek-e-Insaf (PTI) responsible for the issues being faced by the country said that the incumbent government inherited several problem from the former PTI regime.

In media talk, the PPP leader criticized the previous government for leaving behind a hub of problems and making the lives of people miserable with inflation.

Imran Khan inflicted this curse of inflation by increasing the value of dollar, she said.

Shazia Marri further lambasted the PTI Chairman saying that he should stop putting the blame on incumbent government and answer for the past four years of PTI government.

Furthermore, Shazia Marri has announced to establish Nashonuma Centers in all districts of the country to address the issue of malnutrition amongst the children of deserving families.

In this regard, she said 21 billion rupees have been earmarked for this project in the annual budget 2022-23. She said currently there are 50 centers in the country.

The Minister said 364 billion rupees have been allocated for Benazir Income Support Program increasing it to 45.6 percent as compared to last year.

She said ten thousand additional scholarships will be given this year under the Ehsaas scholarships to the deserving students. She said currently, children whose parents have income amounting 40,000 rupees or less per month are getting this scholarship, but we have proposed that income slab for this scholarship should be increased to 80,000 rupees keeping in view the inflation and economic woes.

The Minister said a dynamic registry of BISP will also be prepared that will update all the data and information of BISP beneficiaries.

She said five hundred thousand more people from Balochistan will be included in BISP which will help cover sixty five to seventy percent of the population of the province.