KHANEWAL: Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Ehsaas Ration Programme Wednesday started in Khanewal district by registering the grocers and deserving families to provide essential items to people at low prices with over 30 per cent discount.
According to press release, the programme was designed in a way to benefit only the deserving people and was the first targeted-subsidy initiative to benefit the poor, officials said in a meeting chaired by Deputy Commissioner Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi.
The district administration has started registration of grocers and deserving persons. Assistant Director Ehsaas Kifalat Programme Nauman Qayyum said that Ehsaas Ration Riayat Application has been activated for the registration of grocers and low income families.
Deserving people having monthly income below Rs 50,000 can get themselves registered by sending their computerized national identity card (CNIC) numbers in sms to 8171 and their registration via the application would enable them get wheat flour (Atta), Ghee, Cooking Oil, and Pulses at 30 per cent subsidized price.
DC Sherazi said that the programme has been launched at the union council level adding that it would benefit deserving families residing in 135 union councils. Assistant director Ehsaas Kifalat Programme Husnain Raza said that registered grocers would get payments with reasonable profit within 48 hours after selling essential items under the programme. ADCR Waqar Ali, assistant commissioner Khurram Hameed, Rabia Siyal, and Amna Ehsan Tarar, officials from National Bank of Pakistan and other departments attended the meeting.