Saturday November 4, 2017
Kabul (BNA) Chaired by President Ashraf Ghani, the high council on decreasing poverty, offering services and citizenship partnership held meeting to discuss poverty situation in the country, the presidential palace said in a statement.
At the outset, the president said the council aimed at reducing poverty rate. Thanking the different organizations operational under the framework of the council, the president said the high council on decreasing poverty would consolidate other councils’ works in term of offering services, the statement further said.
Afterward, the acting minister of rural rehabilitation, Mujibul Rahman briefed the session on citizens’ charter project and said the program covered over 3000 villages’ councils and the number would reach over 10000 by 2018, the statement added. He said 90 percent of these councils’ new members were consisted of educated youth and more than 47 percent were women, the statement went on to say. “One of the Citizens’ Charter Project aims is to provide the ground for job opportunities to poor people,” he added.
Then, acting minister of economy Mustafa Mastour, general director of Central Statistics Office Ahmad Jawid Rassouli and some other related officials shared their views and suggestions in the meeting. The president said our concentration should be on poverty reduction and the citizens’ charter project should be implemented inter-ministerial. He added recruitment method, people share, effectiveness, budget consumption, supervision and accountability should be clarified within the program. Policy deputy of the local organs independent administration Timor Sharan also briefed the meeting about the related program. He added the program would help the local administrations to do their functions as it has been defined in the local governance policy. At the end, the president said 2017 was about to end and we should have a clear image on poverty situation in the country.
