Syed Murad Ali Shah Approves Rs4 Bn For People's Poverty Reduction Programme

Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, has approved Rs4 billion for the People's Poverty Reduction Programme (PPRP) in six district as a similar programme is already in progress in 10 other districts.

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Oct, 2018 ) :Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, has approved Rs4 billion for the People's Poverty Reduction Programme (PPRP) in six district as a similar programme is already in progress in 10 other districts.

He approved the above amount on Friday while presiding over a meeting here at Chief Minister House, said a statement.

The meeting was attended by Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sajjid Jamal Abro, Chairman Sindh Rural Support Organisation (SRSO) Shoaib Sultan Khan, SRSO CEO Dittal Kalhoro and other officers concerned.

The Chief Minister said that the provincial government has already launched a Union Council-Based Poverty Reduction Programme (UCBPRP) of Rs3.36 billion with specific objectives to reduce poverty, improve the quality of life of the poor and marginalized communities through social mobilization, capacity development, assets creation and income generation.

He said that with the start of Rs 4 billion PPRP in six districts, the provincial government's intervention for poverty reduction would spread over 16 districts with an investment of Rs 14.2 billion.

He said that programme was initially launched in two districts Shikapur and Kashmore - Kandhkot districts on pilot basis in 2009 for a period of 30 months.

Realizing the importance of mobilizing communities for collective actions, to pool their resources and to build up group solidarity for sustained reduction in poverty the programme was further extended to two more districts, Jacobabad and Tharparkar in 2010 with an allocation of Rs 2.

009 billion.

Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem briefing the meeting about the UCBPRP said that it has achieved great success in four districts, Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacoabad and Tharparkar.

He said that under the programme 9,072 low cost housing units were provided to shelterless households, 1,124 households were given water supply schemes, 34,211 persons were imparted vocational training, 114,328 households have been provided protection of micro health insurance plan, 195 schools were made functional and 43 small villages were rehabilitated.

Waseem said that considering the success of the programme, the Chief Minister further expanded the programme to six districts, Umerkot, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, Kahirpur, badin and Thatta for Rs4.916 billion in 2017.

This schemes is being implemented through Sindh Rural Support Oerganistaion (SRSO) led by Shoaib Sultan Khan.

The European Union (EU) has also launched a similar programme named `Union Council and Community Economic Strengthening Support (SUCCESS) targeting reduction of poverty and enhancement of livelihoods in eight more districts by investing Rs8 billion.

Approving Peoples Poverty Reduction Programme (PPRP) Rs4. billion Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the programme was being launched in 288 union councils of six districts of the province.

The districts include Ghotki, Sukkur, Naushehroferoze,Benazirabad and rural Union Councils of Karachi and Hyderabad.