Investment in human resource development can diminish poverty: Prime Minister

Islamabad (Pakistan Point News / Online - 08th April, 2019) Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that poverty can be reduced by making investment in the human resource development.He said this in his tweet on Monday in which he issued policy statement on government's initiative "Ehsaas", which is the recently announced poverty alleviation program.

"I am pleased to release my policy statement on "Ehsaas", my priority poverty reduction program with its 4 focus areas and 115 policy actions to reduce inequality, invest in people, and lift lagging districts" he added.

He said that "Ehsaas" poverty reduction strategy is articulated in four pillars and it currently embodies 115 policy actions, which may be expanded as the process of consultations on the program further widen.

The four pillars include: addressing elite capture and making the government system work to create equality; safety nets for disadvantaged segments of the population; jobs and livelihoods; and human capital development.

This extensive agenda is meant to drive the governments entire might in the pursuit of the objectives of equality and human development.Prime minister outlined that "Ehsaas" programme is for the extreme poor, orphans, widows, the homeless, the disabled, those who risk medical impoverishment, for the jobless, for poor farmers, for laborers, for the sick and undernourished, for students from low-income backgrounds and for poor women and elderly citizens.

This plan is also about lifting lagging areas where poverty is higher.