An official at NADRA on Sunday enumerated different projects and mentioned another programme to manage Sindh Zakat System as in collaboration with Provincial Ushr and Zakat Department, a Guzara Allowance programme has been developed to facilitate initially 85,000 beneficiaries.
The basic objective is to streamline country’s zakat disbursement system through a secure biometric mechanism and easy disbursement mechanism through e-Sahulat targeting the poorest of the poor. This programme would be extended to KPK as well.
He said NADRA has registered 95% male and 88% female in KPK. The Government has initiated implementation of Component-I of the scheme for End-to-end Computerisation of Targeted Public Distribution System Operations, which comprises digitization of ration cards/beneficiary and other databases, computerization of supply-chain management, setting up of transparency portal and grievance redressal mechanisms. As part of Fair Price Shop (FPS) automation, some States/UTs namely, Chandigarh UT, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Odisha, Puducherry, etc. have reported issuance of TPDS commodities on pilot basis using Smart Cards wherein existing ration cards are replaced by Smart Cards. These Smart Cards have biometric features of members of beneficiary families, based on which verification of the beneficiary family takes place and only thereafter, the essential commodities are issued to the intended beneficiaries from the FPSs.
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Quelle/Source: Pakistan Observer, 04.03.2013
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