Overview
- Helpline 1000 will open on the first day of Ramazan, with applications also accepted via a web portal and mobile app using CNIC.
- About 400,000 Nigehban cards have been delivered, each enabling Rs10,000 in assistance withdrawable at over 9,200 ATMs, with provincewide distribution targeted by the 10th of Ramazan.
- Digital verification through the PSER system will deliver funds within 24 hours to registered recipients, with new applicants verified within four days.
- Punjab has ordered PERA and price control committees to act against hoarding and overcharging, approved extended business hours, opened subsidized Ramazan and Sahulat bazaars at roughly 15% below market rates, set up 167 camp sites, and planned nearly 300 Nigehban dastarkhwans.
- Separately, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa approved an Ehsaas Ramazan package of Rs12,500 per family for 1,016,394 households, totaling Rs12.8 billion, with distribution to be completed by the eighth of Ramazan.