LAHORE Benazir Income Support Programme Chairperson Farzana Raja has said the number of beneficiary families registered with the BISP will rise up to 7 million in the next month, while 96 per cent of the nationwide poverty survey has already been completed and till now more than 5.4 million families have been enrolled with the programme. She was addressing the cheques distributing ceremony at the Governors House Lahore under the Waseela-e-Haq Scheme of the BISP. Cheques were distributed among 263 women belonging to various districts of the Punjab. The PPP provincial leadership, parliamentarians, workers and the cheque-recipient females were also present. Federal Minister Samina Khalid Ghurki, Makhdoom Shahab-ud-Din, Imtiaz Safdar Warriach, Altaf Qureshi, Sami Ullah Khan, Shaukat Mahmood Basra, Tanvir Ashraf Kaira and Sajida Mir were prominent. Farzana Raja also mentioned that the PPP was a movement of giving the rights of the people at their doorsteps and the BISP was successfully advancing this mission. She lauded the efforts and vision of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for advancing the mission of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. She said Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto had sacrificed her life to serve the people of Pakistan and to protect their rights. Hence, she said, we will not allow anybody to create hurdles between the poor people of Pakistan and the BISP which is established to serve them. We will achieve the mission of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto of making Pakistan a welfare state, she added. The Chairperson BISP further said all the families registered with the BISP were being included in the balloting under Waseela-e-Haq. Besides this, she said, every registered family was being covered by life insurance of Rs One lac and a member from each registered family would be imparted with vocational/technical training under Waseela-e-Rozgar initiative. She mentioned that some elements were busy in spreading baseless rumours and allegations against the BISP.