BISP survey in Multan division to start from January.

MULTAN -- :A new survey of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) would start in the division from the next month (January) to add more needy and deserving people.

BISP Director Multan division Ashfaq Ahmad Hiraj told reporter here on Friday that the survey was being conducted after 10 years which had been held in 2008.

He said that contract of the survey was awarded to the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) which would ensure door-to-door survey in Multan, Lodhran, Vehari and Khanewal.

He said that the survey would be completed in almost in five months, adding that there were 325,000 BISP beneficiaries across the division.

Ashfaq Hiraj said the new deserving beneficiaries would be included as per the Proxy Means Testing (PMT) formula after completing the survey. He added that survey teams would compile complete details of families, including their assets, family members, rooms, toilets, agriculture land, job or jobless people in family.

He said that the families...