Government Religious Committee approves plan for savings, waste reduction

04/01/2020

The Government Committee for Religious Affairs (GCRA) on Match 20 issued a program for savings and waste reduction 2020.  

The program aimed to enhance economic efficiency in fulfilling the GCRA’s tasks, reduce economically ineffective activities by GCRA’s officials and employees, as well as save some of its budget approved for the year 2020 for the Covid-19 prevention and control.

The program set to achieve from 10% to 12% reduction in regular spendings allocated for seminars, conferences, anniversaries, travelling…; 15% reduction in spendings for organizing overseas trips and receiving foreign guests; 100% cut of costs incurring in organizing grounding-breaking and inaugurating ceremonies of the GCRA’s construction works.

In addition, the government religious committee sets to obtain 10% cut in the 2020 investment capital as regulated by the Government’s Resolution dated in Otober 2019.

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