BADIN, Dec 19: Badin District Nazim Kamal Khan Chang has directed the chairman of the district Zakat committee to report about the cause behind the non-distribution of Zakat money among deserving people before Eid-ul-Fitr, it was learnt here reliably.

It has been reported that rupees 5.5 million were allocated as special package from Zakat funds for the deserving of the district but the amount could not be distributed before the Eid by the chairmen of Zakat committees of the district.

The district chairman Zakat, Mohammad Yaqoob Thebo, also directed the local Zakat committees chairmen to arrange distribution of Zakat money in their respective areas but none of the local committees distributed Zakat money on the pretext that no letter to that effect was received by them and they were unable to distribute Zakat money without any written authority.

The district Nazim has taken the delay in the distribution of Zakat funds as an irresponsible attitude and is reportedly angry over the negligence by the officials concerned.

He also made a request to Sindh government to take notice of the officials’ behaviour due to which thousands of the deserving could not get any benefit from Zakat special package, sources said.

Following non-distribution of Zakat money, numerous poor and deserving people were not able to celebrate Eid.

Adds Our Mithi correspondent: A significant number of widows, elders, disabled, orphans and other deserving, who were directed to receive from the post offices their subsistence allowance sanctioned through Baitulmaal, is said to have not received it because of their inability to travel all the way to towns for doing so.

Taking notice of this, Ramsingh Sodho, Naib Nazim district Tharparkar, Bherulal Soother, Nazim union council, Mithrio Bhatti, Rahmatullah Rahoomo, Nazim UC Jesejo-Par, and others have urged the authorities to streamline and simplify the system so that the poor get their funds without any trouble.

It may be mentioned that as the army authorities and the district authorities had received several complaints regarding mismanagement and misappropriation of the Baitulmaal funds distributed in December, 2000, they had directed the deserving people to receive it in person. This, however, is causing inconvenience to some of them.