PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has directed the quarters concerned to devise a sustainable model to ensure utilisation of social security funds in a proper manner.

He directed to arrange collective marriage programme of 4,000 deserving women hailing from different areas of the province.

Under the programme, a grant of Rs0.2 million per woman would be provided from the dowry fund, he said.

The CM issued the instructions while speaking at a meeting held at the Chief Minister’s House on Friday.

MNA Dr Amjad Ali Khan, secretary social welfare Nazar Hussain Shah, special secretaries to chief minister, Waqar Ali Khan, Masood Younis and other relevant officials attended the meeting.

Mr Gandapur directed the authorities concerned to collect the actual data of deserving women from all the districts and to provide quota in proportion to the population of each district, so the decision regarding mass marriage could be implemented in a transparent manner.

“We need to have an efficient scrutiny mechanism in order to ensure that only deserving girls would be selected for that programme,” he said. He directed that members of the committees to be formed at village council level should be selected purely on merit.

He made it clear that political recommendations or personal likes and dislikes would not be tolerated in the disbursement of social security funds. The CM also directed to provide standard electric wheelchairs to the needy persons.

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2024