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ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that the administration was not changing name of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), the nation's biggest social wellbeing net program of its sort.
He advised this to newsmen at a question and answer session in Islamabad. The clergyman said his administration was taking measures for annihilation of neediness.
"A few new activities are being propelled under Ehsaas program, while a program named Kifalat is being propelled for poor people," Chaudhry said.
He included the administration was likewise going to start 'Sasta Ghar Scheme'.
The Pakistan Peoples Party had recorded solid dissent over reports that the national government was thinking about evacuating the name of previous head administrator, the late Benazir Bhutto, from the BISP's name.
PPP administrator Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had said the administration's turn was a "scheme" to end the social security net program.
He had said it was a "long haul trick" under which the name of the program would initially be changed, trailed by diminishing designation for it, and inevitably the program would be finished.
Outside Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had likewise restricted changing name of the social wellbeing net programmme.
Qureshi had said it won't be a "politically right" choice and will be proportionate to making a non-issue an issue.
