RIWCCI calls for monitoring of relief aid
By Hina Kiyani

ISLAMABAD—Vice President Rawalpindi Islamabad Chambers of Commerce and Industry (RIWCCI) Shagufta Zahid has called for monitoring of relief activities.
She also demanded that money kept for debt servicing should be utilized for service of ailing humanity.
In a statement issued here today she said that a number of complaints in the collection and distribution of aid in the affected areas suggests enhanced monitoring.
“If government failed to work out a proper monitoring system, the people will loose confidence in the process, that will be as damaging as the calamity,” she warned.
Knowing about the usage of their hard-earned funds and transparency is the basic right of the donors, she said.
The RIWCCI urged donors for greater financial and technical assistance to mitigate sufferings of the quake victims.
It also called upon the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank to write off some of the Pakistan’s debts so that the money kept for debt servicing could be utilized for the well being of the quake victims.
After the quake the World Bank announced an aid of $20 million but later turned the aid into loan, which is unfortunate and unlikely for an institution of such repute, Shagufta remarked.