Pakistan Baitul Mal running 39 orphanages: Senate told.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Azam Swati Tuesday told the Senate that Pakistan Baitul Mal was running 39 orphanages named Dar-ul-Ehsaas to cater needs of orphan children across the country including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

Speaking in the Senate during the question hour, he said 75 new Dar-ul-Ehsaas would be established across Pakistan in the current financial year.

He said at present 100 children were enrolled in each centre and they were kept in home-like environment with the provision of free boarding facility, food and clothing. They were provided education in best private educational institutions of the country.

He said the Senate was constantly making efforts to improve the service delivery and enhance scope of Dar-ul-Ehsaas programme.

Youth villa had been established in Karachi for adolescent children wherein 5000 children might be accommodated, he added.

Swati said BISP's core programme was unconditional cash transfer under which BISP provided Rs 5000 stipend to over five million eligible beneficiaries on quarterly basis.

Waseela-e-Taleem - the conditional cash transfer was another programme being run by BISP currently...