Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, every person becomes poor financially and unable to fulfil their families expenses. Even the majority of parents are unable to pay their children school fees. Therefore, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation conducted a meeting in this regard. Hence, Dr Sania Nishtar has approved the Ehsaas Secondary Education Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. The purpose of offering this CCT program is to help deserving households to send their children to schools without facing any financial barrier.
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According to the details, almost 18.7 million children in the age group of six to 16 years will leave their schools due to the C0VID-19 pandemic. However, the social welfare programme Ehsaas has prepared a strategy to provide children of underprivileged households conditional cash grant of Rs3,000 per quarter for the girl child and Rs2,500 for the boy child on the fulfilment of 70 per cent attendance in school. All payments will be biometrically made to mothers of children.
The new secondary education CCT structured along the lines of Ehsaas stipends policy that allocates higher amounts for girls as compared to boys. This policy decision is an extension of Ehsaas primary education CCT, Waseela-i-Taleem Digital, expanding it to the secondary level
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