Certificate distribution ceremony at Roots School

Certificate distribution ceremony at Roots School
Rawalpindi: Females are the main beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), as over 5.5 million families have been registered under the scheme up till now.

Benazir Income Support Programme Chairperson Farzana Raja stated this while speaking at the Montessori Certificate Distribution Ceremony at the Roots School, DHA Campus, here. She said: "We are giving Rs1,000 per month to women so that their family members give them due respect."

She said that Nadra has registered 2.2 million females in the country during the last six months. She stated that 18,000 were registered in Fata where they face life threats. The government has pledged to bring a social change through the BISP. In the next phase, these families would be provided with basic health facilities and accidental coverage up to Rs25,000. Females would be imparted vocational training and skills to enable them to start their own business and earn livelihood for their families.

Farzana Raja praised the Roots National Institute of Teachers Training and Education for providing professional training and community education free of cost to underprivileged teachers. The first batch includes 120 participants, including teachers from rural areas, government schoolteachers, housewives, young mothers, professional doctors, fashion designers and teachers from Khairpur, Sindh.

RNITTE Director Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq said that the institute was founded with the strategic national aim of imparting teacher training at the national level to help bridge the gap and develop a pool of professionally certified teachers who would become value added members of society.

Later, founder director Riffat Mushtaq gave the school memento to the chief guest while the chief guest distributed certificates among the participants. The News