Kamyab Pakistan Programme To Revolutionize Low Income Segment: Tarin
October 04, 2021
86
ISLAMABAD, (APP): Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Shaukat Tarin said Monday that Kamyab Pakistan Programme (KPP) would bring about a revolution in the low-income segment of the population by helping the poor earn a respectable livelihood and stand on their own feet.Addressing the launching ceremony of the Kamyab Pakistan Program, the minister said that Rs1400 billion would be provided to 3.7 million households during the next 5 years adding that the target would be taken up 6 million households in the future.He said the welfare of the poor was the priority of the incumbent government and that was why the government had introduced a ‘bottom-up approach’ to lift them out of poverty.He said that this was the first government to introduce the ‘bottom-up approach’ to overcome income disparity, adding even this approach was being utilized by the United States to bridge widening incomes gaps.He said that promises were made during the last 72 years for uplifting the poor, however, these were never fulfilled adding that the credit goes to the incumbent government to introduce this strategy to make the lives of common people better and make Pakistan a welfare state.The minister said that under Kamyab Kissan Programme, the government would provide interest-free loans of Rs150,000 to farmers for each crop and 300,000 for two crops whereas they would be given Rs200,000 loans for agriculture mechanization.He said that under Kamyab Karabor Programme, the government would also provide Rs500,000 interest loans to each household for three years for establishing a business to earn a respectable livelihood.He said that the loans would be provided through various microfinance banks and Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs), which he said have experience of working at the micro-level, providing small loans for the last 40 years, and have a 99 percent recovery rate.He said the provision of interest-free loans to farmers and businesses would be a joint venture of big commercial banks and microfinance institutions, wherein the commercial banks would provide wholesale loans to microfinance institutions, which would be disbursing them on a retail basis to the people. This was a unique formula, he maintained.He said, unlike in the past when the people had to go after banks to provide them loans, now banks would come to their doorsteps, adding loans are being provided to the people who had no access to them or had to borrow from middlemen on high rates. We are rescuing these people, he added.The minister said that the government also introduced Sehat cards for Sehatmand Pakistan, which would be provided to every household.Under the Kamyab Hunarmand program, he added, one person of each family would provide employable technical training.The minister appreciated the efforts of all those who have worked hard in preparing the Kamyab Pakistan Programme.He said that in in past, the governments would be working on a trickle-down effect strategy which had remained ineffective in providing relief to the poor, however, the bottom-up approach would directly help to uplift them out of poverty.The minister underlined the need for the continuation of economic policies to ensure sustainable economic growth.(Please send your news, article, pictorial to our email address <editor@enewspaper.com.pk &WhatsApp +923132434567 / +923332100737PLEASE SEND YOUR COMMENTS Thanks)(facebook ID shujaullahk)https://www.facebook.com/Newspaper on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Enewspapercompk-182394028490643(twitter: KhanShujaullah)https://www.twitter.com/home(linkedin: shuja-ullah-khan)https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
PKR
