KP govt to fund mass wedding of 4,000 girls

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to arrange a collective marriage program for 4,000 deserving girls from across the province.

Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur directed the authorities to complete homework for the program under which a grant of Rs200,000 would be provided from the dowry fund to each girl.

The chief minister while chairing a meeting on Friday directed the concerned authorities to collect actual data of deserving girls from all the districts and provide quota in proportion to the population of each district, so as to ensure that the decision regarding mass marriage program is implemented in an efficient and transparent manner.

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

He made it clear that political recommendations or personal likes and dislikes would not be tolerated in the disbursement of social security funds, adding that in case of any kind of corruption, misuse or fraudulent, concerned authorities would be held accountable.

“Each and every penny of Zakat funds must be spent on the wellbeing of needy and poor people, giving priority to orphans, widows and persons with disabilities”, he directed.