As per official figures available on the Sindh government’s website, the provincial finance department has so far released over Rs1.08 billion in support of the said programme. On March 26, the government also ordered the constitution of relief committees at union council (UC) or ward levels across all districts of the province for the distribution of the ration bags. However, the Sindh government doesn’t even have access to the BISP database,” revealed Ghani. The need of the hourFormer Sindh advocate general Barrister Zamir Ghumro believes creating a provincial database for its people including those working on daily wages, is the need of the hour. So to make this database possible, all the UCs have to do is start computerising their records,” Jatoi explained.

Source: The Express Tribune April 13, 2020 01:41 UTC