Pakistan Bait ul Mal ready to work with ICCI on welfare projects
ISLAMABAD ( Web News )
Aamir Fida Paracha, Managing Director, Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) said that his organization is ready to work with ICCI on welfare projects, so the Chamber should prepare its proposal for skills development and empowerment of women and send it to him that would be considered for implementation. He said that the PBM is being digitized to promote transparency and increase the confidence of donors. He said that they are working on devising a scoring system for beneficiaries on the pattern of Benazir Income Support Program, which will greatly facilitate the beneficiaries and reduce documentary requirements. He said that good projects of the previous government including the shelter homes have been continued, but those shelters have been closed which had no beneficiary and were costing great expenses. He said that many welfare projects including 50 sweet homes for orphans and 160 women empowerment centers are working under PBM. He said that the scholarships for poor students in the universities have been further increased while the scholarship for the poor students of Balochistan has been increased to 20%. He said that the government has increased the budget of Pakistan Baitul Mal from 6 billion rupees to carry forward the welfare projects. He expressed these views while addressing the business community during his visit to the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), said that Pakistan Baitul Mal is rendering valuable services for the welfare of the poor and needy people of the society, which is laudable. He said that PBM is doing many welfare projects including provision of education & medical treatment to the poor segments of society, so he strongly appealed to the business community and the philanthropists of the society to fully cooperate with PBM so that this institution can better serve the poor and needy members of the society.
Engr. Azharul Islam Zafar, Vice President ICCI said that PBM is carrying out a great mission by serving the suffering humanity and suggested that it should also play role in providing education to 20 million out-of-school children.
Zafar Bakhtawari, former President ICCI and Secretary General UBG, said that ICCI wants to start a project in collaboration with PBM for skills development and training of young girls for their economic empowerment. If this project is successful in Islamabad, then PBM can start it in other parts of the country.
Khalid Chaudhry, Maqsood Tabish, Chaudhry Javed Iqbal, Imtiaz Abbasi, Shahid Zaman Shinwari, Naveed Abbasi, Ms. Nagina Khaliq, Ms. Nasira Ali and others also spoke on the occasion and suggested that PBM should streamline its documentary requirements for the beneficiaries to facilitate them.
ICCI MoU NICAT
In other ceremony The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) and the National Incubation Center for Aerospace Technologies (NICAT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish collaboration in order to promote innovation and entrepreneurship programs for youth. The MoU was signed during a visit of Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, ICCI along with a delegation to NICAT. Abdul Rehman Siddiqui, Convener, ICCI MoU Committee and Imran Jattala, Project Director NICAT signed the MoU in a ceremony held at NICAT.
As per MoU, NICAT will support ICCI for incubation and entrepreneurship programs and will collaborate with ICCI for engagement of Pakistan’s youth in innovation and entrepreneurship programs in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).NICAT will display the ICCI logo on its promotional materials and websites as appropriate and subject to joint approval. Similarly, ICCI will work with NICAT in the incubation &entrepreneurship programs and startup challenges. ICCI will display the NICAT logo on its promotional materials and websites as appropriate and subject to joint approval.