Punjab Minister for Zakat-O-Ushr Malik Nadeem Kamran said Zakat distribution of over one billion rupees among deserving ones once local Zakat Committees are constituted and whole process would be completed by December 30. He was presiding over departmental meeting on Thursday.
The minister said Zakat would be distributed under different heads including marriage grants, Gozara allowance and others. Malik Nadeem Kamran said constitution of Zakat Committees is completing fast and a total of 24,421 committees are being constituted. So far, he added, 20,670 committees have been constituted. He further said transparency was prime objective of the Punjab government in Zakat distribution and the unscrupulous departmental elements would be deal with iron hands.
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