ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation,Dr. Sania Nishtar Wednesday said that the federal government is going to launch an institutional arrangement in next three months allowing the corporate and private sectors to connect with Ehsaas Programme being the government’s flagship welfare initiative with utmost transparency and efficiency. The PM’s Special Assistant stated this while addressing as the chief guest at the inauguration of 12th Annual CSR Summit-2020 organized by National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH). Dr. Nishtar said that she had been advising the philanthropists associated with the country’s corporate sector and willing to donate for the Ehsaas programme to wait for another three months to let this special arrangement be launched allowing the government to receive these donations from the private sector and spend them with utmost integrity and honesty. She said that a web portal would be launched under the proposed arrangement to let the private sector know well as in what manner each of the pennies of the philanthropic donations would be spent for the welfare of the individuals and for the benefit of several components of the Ehsaas programme. A policy was also being formalized to offer incentives to the corporate sector of the country to offer incentives to the corporate sector on institutionalized basis to do philanthropy. The SAPM said that in her capacity as being the in-charge of the government’s programme for poverty reduction and social protection, she had been mandated with the task to come up with the required incentives for the corporate sector to contribute for welfare initiatives of the government like Ehsaas programme. She continued that the present government had been doing its best to ensure that utmost transparency was being maintained in its functioning while everyone who was willing to contribute for social protection and welfare of the masses get a level-playing field. Further, she said that Ehsaas programme of the present government comprised of 134 different initiatives for the welfare of different sections of the needy including orphans and women. She had been making efforts to forge partnerships with the private sector to further these initiatives. Dr. Nishtar said that she was well aware of the importance of the private and corporate sectors as without them the government alone could not carry out such tasks like poverty alleviation and social protection of deprived masses in the country
