Free flour centers being set up for people not registered with BISP.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said dedicated counters were being established for the needy people, not registered with Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), to provide free flour bags to them at the distribution centres under Ramazan Package.

"A huge number of people who are not registered with BISP, deserve free flour bags as they are also living below the poverty line," he said while talking to media during his visit to a free wheat flour distribution centre.

He said National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) and Punjab Information Technology Board took up the challenge to include non-BISP people by proposing a solution to this issue and developing a system which would be fully operational.

Under this system, he said the non-BISP deserving people would be eligible to get free flour from the separate counters after registering their names in the system.

The prime minister said from Tuesday, the people who have not yet received any flour bag, would be provided all three bags at a time so that they would not have to travel again for the purpose.

He said this was the first time in the country's history that free flour was being provided to deserving people, therefore the administration had to face a big challenge in the beginning but the process was getting streamlined.

He appreciated the Punjab government and Rawalpindi administration who were working day and night to make the distribution process smooth and uninterrupted. "Their passion to serve the poor during fasting is praiseworthy," he added.

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