'SWABI, March 4: The district Zakat department will disburse Rs29.4 million among deserving people, particularly schoolchildren and madressahs, in Swabi.

Sources in the department told Dawn on Friday that madressahs and schools would get a major chunk from the allocated funds.

The public sector schools would get Rs8.6 million while madressahs Rs3.8 million for scholarships for the deserving students and the improvement of educational environment and other facilities, the sources said.

The department would provide Rs2.8 million to the health sector and Rs2.9 million as guzara allowance for the needy people. Around Rs7.8 million has been allocated for imparting vocational training to youths, while Rs2 million has been set aside as dowry fund for girls of the destitute families.

The sources said Rs1.5 million had already been distributed among the needy people as Eid grant. The district zakat chairman, Faheem Dil, when contacted, said the monitoring mechanism to make the disbursement more transparent had been overhauled. He said those local zakat chairmen who had recommended undeserved people for the zakat fund would face action.