27.7 billion DZD to aid the needy in Ramadan – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryya

Ammar Marzouki, Director of the Local Budget at the Ministry of Interior and Local Communities, revealed that a financial envelope of 27.7 billion DZD has been allocated for the solidarity grant allocated for the month of Ramadan, which will be distributed to 2.7 million families at a rate of 10 thousand DZD per family.

Today, Monday, during the “Sabah Guest” program on the national radio, Marzouki said that the ministry is in the process of completing the process of preparing the lists for granting a financial subsidy for solidarity for the benefit of low-income people during the month of Ramadan, which is estimated at 10,000 Algerian dinars, as preparations for pouring this subsidy began last October. By the municipalities – in cooperation with representatives of civil society – as it is working on controlling the final lists of beneficiaries, which include more than 2.7 million people, including heads of families without income and groups benefiting from the support provided within the framework of the National Solidarity Program, as well as employees who Their income does not exceed the national minimum net guaranteed wage.

Marzouki added that the ministry allocated a financial envelope estimated at 27.7 billion dinars to finance this grant, 16.5 billion dinars of it from the state budget, 08.35 billion dinars from the budget of local communities, and 1.45 billion dinars from the Ministry of National Solidarity, in addition to contributing Annual meetings of the various major public national institutions under the tutelage of ministerial sectors such as “Sonatrach”, “Sonelgaz”, “Naftal”, “Algiers Post” and some transport institutions.

On the other hand, the Director of the Budget at the Ministry of Interior spoke about the suffering of 900 municipalities across the country from financial difficulty in paying wages and completing local development programmes, which is the deficit that the state covers through the Social Security and Solidarity Fund for local communities that is supervised by the Minister of Interior. Allocating 360 billion dinars to finance the management budget, in addition to a financial cover estimated at 110 billion dinars to support local development programs, attributing this deficit to the weak financial revenues resulting from property and public utilities and those collected from collection and contracts. In the context, the source confirmed that the municipal draft law Currently being prepared and discussed at the level of the General Secretariat of the Government, it aims to address the weakness of imports and local collection, as it proposes new provisions in order to encourage the heads of municipalities to take initiative and to develop small economic activities and projects.

Ammar Marzouki revealed that the Ministry issued instructions to governors in order to accompany the agricultural and trade sectors by opening neighborhood commercial spaces to ensure the supply of the market with widely consumed materials, the number of which has now reached 1284 neighborhood commercial spaces at the level of 700 municipalities to support the weekly and daily markets, in exchange for providing and intensifying public lighting, especially In the areas concerned with the intensity of movement and activity, especially in the vicinity of places of worship, while making sure to prepare a security plan to provide security and tranquility for citizens.