BISP registers over 0.4m households in NSER from flood affected districts.

ISLAMABAD -- Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) has so far registered over 4,00,000 households in the recently launched dynamic National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) survey through its registration centers at Tehsil level.

Around 1,70,000 households have been registered in the NSER from the flood-affected districts so that the losses incurred by the households can be estimated to provide assistance.

According to an official source, the launch of the first ever dynamic NSER in the history of Pakistan will enhance the country's capacity to cope with disasters, pandemics and economic instability by adopting a more effective data collection mechanism for the poor households.

The NSER is a landmark achievement and is linked with National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) for data collection as well as validation and can allow swift registration of six distinct types of information for the registry which shall be validated through NADRA.

The six different types include registration of missed-out households, eligibility appeal cut-off for poor but ineligible households with widows or elderly people, roster updates for regular changes such as marital status, inclusion of new born, changes or correction in education, health, disability and employment information of household members, gauging information on households impacted by disasters and their re-registration, reassessment of ineligible households for last two years and reassessment of eligible or beneficiary households for last three years.

The registry provides registration and information update opportunities to all citizens. Since this registry is linked with NADRA, only NADRA-authenticated information can be registered or updated.

Besides registration centres, an app will also be launched through Google play store which will facilitate the already registered households in changing or correcting their information. While mobile registration is also planned for far-off areas which will register household information at their doorsteps.

It is pertinent to mention here that the NSER which is the scientifically based real-time data collection was launched by BISP to identify deserving families and households across Pakistan and to provide them with targeted cash assistance.

The BISP was launched in 2008 as the largest social safety net programme in the country with an aim to provide financial assistance to households living below the poverty line. While initiating the programme the...