Minister Magyezi lauds Alebtong district over PDM money
ALEBTONG, May 14, 2024 – Local Government Minister, Raphael Magyezi has lauded Alebtong District Local Government for exhausting Shs 6.9 billion government released for the beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model [PDM].
Magyezi commended the district recently while commissioning Alebtong market shades constructed under the Local Economic Growth Support [LEGS] project funded by the Islamic Development Bank.
He urged public servants, and in the district to continue mobilising people to embrace government programs aimed at eradicating poverty and driving people to economic transformation.
He said the National Resistance Movement [NRM] Government is promoting the message of wealth creation, urging people to the market constructed to make money.
“I want to emphasise two special programmes for you to get money; the first programme is the PDM whose money is going directly to your pockets,” said Magyezi.
“I want to thank Alebtong for disbursing the PDM money 100 percent to the beneficiaries,” he said, adding that last year government disbursed Shs 100mln to every parish in Uganda and this year it intends to send Shs 50mln before June while the additional Shs 50mln would come later to make it Shs 100mln that government sends every financial year to the parish under the programme.
“Each of the PDM beneficiaries will be getting Shs 1 million, if they give you less than that, immediately inform the resident district commissioner, LCV, or your Member of Parliament,” he said.
The Alebtong District Commercial Officer, Bob Oluk said in the previous disbursement, some people received less than one million shillings because the PDM SACCO leaders assessed the business proposals and established that some people could not qualify for the money, as guided by the PDM guidelines before they were amended.
He added: “When the guideline changed, we started giving out Shs 1 million per person and we shall continue in that direction.”
PDM was launched in 2022 by President Yoweri Museveni, targeting to move 3.5 million people trapped in subsistence farming to the money economy. Each 10,594 parishes in the country.
The beneficiaries are supposed to spend the money on enterprises such as coffee, dairy farming, fish farming, piggery, and poultry keeping among others, before they can pay it back to the parish revolving fund for others to use.
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