PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation, Dr Sania Nishtar has said that providing relief to the poor and underprivileged people of society is the top priority of the government. Addressing the media persons in the provincial capital on Saturday, Dr Sania Nishtar said that the government has already started a national socio-economic survey across the country to register deserving families for Ehsas programmes. She hoped the survey for Ehsas programmes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would be completed by April next year. She said that 80,000 deserving people are being given Ehsas interest free loans every month to start their own businesses. Earlier, the Special assistant visited a household in Peshawar along with the survey team and inspected the process of survey. She also talked to a beneficiary of a national socio-economic survey under Ehsaas Programme in Sikander Town. TLTP
