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Prime Minister Imran Khan launchrf the nation-wide rollout of Waseela-e-Taleem Programme for primary school going children from all over Pakistan. While unveiling the details about nation-wide rollout of Waseela-e-Taleem, under the Ehsaas umbrella, Special Advisor to Prime Minister, Dr. Sania Nishter told that to join the children and their parents to witness new enrolments of deserving children in Waseela-e-Taleem.
Dr Sania said that following a briefing on the recent deep-rooted reforms introduced in Waseela-e-Taleem under the umbrella of Ehsaas, Prime Minister would oversee details of a girl child being entered in the end-to-end digital system. At the site, he would also witness the payment being made to the child’s mother, she added.
Pakistan had been running an Education Conditional Cash Transfer for primary school going children called Waseela-e-Taleem since 2012 in selected districts. Now, this programm was being expanded nationwide, representing a major quantum change, the SAPM said.
Dr Sania Nishtar further said that in the past, the programme encountered a number of challenges namely high administrative cost, weak compliance monitoring system, low stipend amount and high error and fraud due to a paper-based approach. Over the last year and a half, a comprehensive and deep-rooted reform was designed and deployed as a result of which far reaching changes had been made in the programme. She said there were four key pillars of reforms:
First, end-to-end digitization of a number of processes, which were previously managed manually. Besides Apps have been developed which are used by staff to register children and monitor compliance. Secondly, cost-effective changes in institutional infrastructure were made to expand this programme nationwide and reliance on NGOs was eliminated. Because of this, operational cost has been reduced from 8% to 3%.
Third, the stipend given to children has been modified as per Ehsaas’ new Stipend policy. Children of poorest families will now be provided conditional cash grants of Rs1,500 for boy child and Rs2,000 per quarter for girl child on attainment of 70% attendance in school.