70,826 families receive cash in Rwp district under Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme

RAWALPINDI, May 10 (APP):As many as 70,826 families have received Rs 12,000 each cash here in Rawalpindi district under Ehsaas Emergency Cash programme.

According to Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Capt. (r) Anwal ul Haq, total 92,800 families were finalized for the programme while the administration has provided cash amounting to over Rs 840 million to 70,826 persons.

He said 26 centers were set up for Rawalpindi district including tehsil Gujar Khan, Taxila, Murree, Kahuta, Kallar Syedan and Kotli Sattian, adding the poor families received cash from these points.

These centres included 14 in Rawalpindi city, two in Gujar Khan, three in Murree, two in Kallar Syedan, one each
in Kahuta, Taxila, Wah Cantonment, Kotli Sattian and Karor.
He said the safety and security of the Ehsaas Emergency Cash beneficiaries arriving to collect cash assistance was the top
priority of the government.

To ensure coronavirus protective measures during payment operations, special disbursement arrangements were put in
place in close coordination with the authorities concerned, the DC added.

Ehsaas had initiated the cash stipend payments to provide instant relief to the daily wagers whose livelihoods were badly affected due to lockdown.

This assistance was meant to help them buy rations, he concluded.