BISP Introduces Mobile Registration Vehicle for Flood Victims
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has already taken another significant initiative to assist families affected by floods in Pakistan. BISP has realized the need for rapid financial assistance and easy registration and has introduced the Mobile Registration Vehicle Service. This service aims to assist people in remote and disaster-affected areas who cannot access registration centers because of the destruction of infrastructure and transport.
What is the BISP Mobile Registration Vehicle?
The Mobile Registration Vehicle is the BISP service that enables the teams to access the affected areas. These teams can now facilitate disaster-affected families to BISP financial aid registration in the field through Mobile Registration Vehicles armed with registration digital systems and biometric devices and having trained personnel.
This initiative is highly responsive to the needs of married women and capped individuals who have to travel long distances to access registration centers.
Objectives of the Mobile Registration Vehicle Service
1.The service has many aims:
2.Fewer travel costs in registration for flood victims.
3.Inclusion of the excluded: Financial inclusion of people in remote and disaster-affected villages.
4.Faster registration and verification processes that enable timely payment of relief.
5.Reach vulnerable populations, disproportionately women and children, often most impacted by floods.
Mobile Registration Process
The steps involved in the Mobile Vehicle Service registration are streamlined and straightforward.
1.You can interact with the Mobile Vehicle in your location, the buses will pull up at designated positions in your locality.
2.Show your Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC)
3.4You will be fingerprinted, and the devices will be connected to the biometrics of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).
4.Answer the requisite questions to populate the BISP database.
5.After a short while, a text will be sent to you that you are registered with the system.5.
The systematic steps taken in this process helps to maintain accuracy while also avoiding attempts of multiple registrations and other forms of identity fraud.
Who Gets Support Under BISP Relief Program for Flood Victims
The frameworks prepared for BISP point benefits for specially targeted disaster victims.
- Those living in the areas hit by floods and cross verified by National Disaster Management Authority’s (NDMA) before and after the disaster.
- Families that lost their homes, livelihoods, and other assets because of floods.
- Families with little to zero income.
- Women registered with BISP holding Computerized National Identity Card reports, as BISP aims to make direct cash transfers to women.
How Mobile Registration Service Deploying the BISP Mobile Registration Vehicle
1.The victims used to go and stand in queues for registration for a very long time and now this is no longer the case.
2.The cash is transferred almost immediately after registration and the quicker aid is delivered.
3.The program is designed to aid the susceptible population with special emphasis to those living in the floods affected and rural areas.
Disbursement of funds systematically begins after Registration
Families that are already registered can cash their grants through BISP partner banks, payment stalls of Ehsaas, and ATMs. Verification processes are done beforehand for efficient transfers to flood affected families.
- Payment schedules and methodologies are communicated through SMS by 8171 to the beneficiaries.
- The assistance of mobile vehicle service rests alongside
- Within disaster stricken areas, the amount of temporary registration desks has
reported surges, alongside the assistance of enhanced data collection surveys concerning families in need. Reports also suggest that through mobile registration the families in need of assistance have increased.
Conclusion
To aim for speed and coverage, the BISP Mobile Registration Vehicle for Flood Victims has been integrated along with the target mobile vehicle registration, which ensures target families have been assisted through the streamlined mobility. Relief funds are granted through BISP, which aims to elevate the endurance and dignity of affected families through community regenerative processes.
