Provincial Zakat Council has granted final approval to distribution of over one billion rupees provided among the flood survivors through Watan Cards. The Central Zakat Council has provided this amount.A meeting of provincial Zakat Council held here on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Administrator Zakat Karim Buksh Abid decided that Zakat funds would be distributed among the flood survivors in Punjab as Rs 10,000 per family.
The federal government would provide Rs 10,000 per family separately. Secretary Zakat and Ushr Karim Buksh Abid informed that Chairmen Zakat Committees have been appointed in 32 districts of the province while Chairmen Zakat Committees in Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Rawalpindi and Lahore will be appointed within a week.