*ISLAMABAD: Diamer Bhasha and Mohmand dams funds account has so farreceived over Rs 839.88 million.*
According to the latest update issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP),the “Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Diamer Bhasha and Mohmand Dams Fund”received Rs 87.4 million on August 9, Rs 63.4 million on August 8 and Rs44.9 million on August 6.
Similarly, total donations received in the fund through various public andcommercial banks on August 03 was Rs 16.1 million, on August 02 Rs 21.3million, on August 01 Rs 41.4 million and on July 31 Rs 66 million.
The country wise data shows that within Pakistan an amount of Rs 833.424million was collected through bank branches, interbank transfers and mobilephone SMS service.
Out of total donation received from within the country, Rs 39.1 millionwere collected through SMS service, Rs 20.6 million from Interbank transferservice whereas an amount of Rs 773.018 million was collected at bankbranches.
Similarly, from USA, an amount of Rs 1.45 million was received for theFund, while from UK Rs 0.927 million, from Germany Rs 0.963 million, fromUAE, Rs 0.664 million, Canada Rs 0.4 million, from Singapore Rs 0.478million and from Netherlands an amount of Rs 0.25 million was received.
The Fund has been established by the SBP on the directions of the SupremeCourt. All the commercial and micro-finance banks, and field offices of SBPBanking Services Corporation have opened the Fund account to receivedonations in cash, and through cheques, pay orders and demand drafts at alltheir branches across the country.
The donors can also make online donations to the Fund through internetbanking, automatic teller machines (ATM) and other alternate deliverychannels (ADC) using IBAN of their respective bank. The banks have sent theIBANs of the Fund account to their clients through SMS alerts, while thebank-wise list of IBANs is also available at the SBP’s web page.
The general public can also make donations in cash at over 400,000branchless banking agents of commercial and micro-finance banks across thecountry against proper receipt in electronic or paper form duly confirmedby the SMS alert.