Support to the needy: Zardari inaugurates Guzara Allowance
It is aimed at supporting families living below poverty line, distributing Rs3,000 to each beneficiary.
File photo of President Zardari. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday inaugurated two projects to be undertaken by National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Guzara (subsistence) Allowance and Sindh Arms Licence Revalidation.
Addressing the inauguration of Benazir Muawanat (support) Card at the Presidency, the president said the project would help improve the lives of the deserving and needy.
Under the programme, Nadra in collaboration with the provincial Zakat and Ushr Department would enroll the Zakat beneficiaries and issue the cards to provide Guzara Allowance. It is aimed at supporting families living below the poverty line and distributing Rs3,000 to each beneficiary every six months.
“Disbursement of Guzara Allowance through Benazir Muawanat Card will eliminate ghost beneficiaries and bring efficiency in the management of funds,” said the president.
“We realize that the end goal of running a transparent government is the delivery of services to the people and that the citizens are able to work in an economy that will afford them food, shelter, education and employment,” he said and added, “Today, by facilitating Guzara Allowance, we are one step closer to that goal.”
The president said that technology is playing a central role in economic growth. The methods and techniques used in Guzara Allowance address several dimensions of problems in social inequities and economic inefficiencies. “I am delighted that the zakat initiative took less than a year from the concept level to actual delivery,” said Zardari.
Zakat is the 2.5% obligatory charity that every Muslim must pay on savings, profits and assets.
Ensuring gun control
A signing ceremony of agreement of Sindh Arms Licences Revalidation and Computerisation between Sindh government and Nadra took place at the occasion. The president said that the initiative primarily aims at ensuring serious gun control.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2013.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday inaugurated two projects to be undertaken by National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Guzara (subsistence) Allowance and Sindh Arms Licence Revalidation.
Addressing the inauguration of Benazir Muawanat (support) Card at the Presidency, the president said the project would help improve the lives of the deserving and needy.
Under the programme, Nadra in collaboration with the provincial Zakat and Ushr Department would enroll the Zakat beneficiaries and issue the cards to provide Guzara Allowance. It is aimed at supporting families living below the poverty line and distributing Rs3,000 to each beneficiary every six months.
“Disbursement of Guzara Allowance through Benazir Muawanat Card will eliminate ghost beneficiaries and bring efficiency in the management of funds,” said the president.
“We realize that the end goal of running a transparent government is the delivery of services to the people and that the citizens are able to work in an economy that will afford them food, shelter, education and employment,” he said and added, “Today, by facilitating Guzara Allowance, we are one step closer to that goal.”
The president said that technology is playing a central role in economic growth. The methods and techniques used in Guzara Allowance address several dimensions of problems in social inequities and economic inefficiencies. “I am delighted that the zakat initiative took less than a year from the concept level to actual delivery,” said Zardari.
Zakat is the 2.5% obligatory charity that every Muslim must pay on savings, profits and assets.
Ensuring gun control
A signing ceremony of agreement of Sindh Arms Licences Revalidation and Computerisation between Sindh government and Nadra took place at the occasion. The president said that the initiative primarily aims at ensuring serious gun control.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2013.