Parliamentary discusses economy processing ration card items in boxes

6-23-13 All Iraq News [Baghdad] Economy and Investment Committee discussed today, Sunday, the ration card items processing in the form of laminated boxes

The Committee statement said each agency received in Iraq on “the Committee discussed at its meeting chaired by MP Mohammed Salman, Deputy Chairman of the Committee and in the presence of a number of writers from the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers containing the ration card items processing in a coated inside boxes of food.”

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers has decided to equip the ration card items in a coated inside boxes of food.

The Government of Iraq has begun, United Nations World Food Programme [WFP] partner MasterCard, today a technical workshop in Baghdad to study the proposal to introduce electronic food vouchers in the ration card system.

According to a statement by the Office [us] on [June 11] “electronic food vouchers, such as smart card technology, creates an opportunity to increase the role of the private sector in supplying food to the Iraqi people and enable the introduction of new food items in the food basket for ration card and thus provide an opportunity for Iraqi citizens for a diverse and balanced food diet, and imparts to the increasing role of the private sector in the supply of food items, and lead to increased efficiency of current ration card which costs the Government $ 5 billion Annually. ” over

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