“Data Bank” to pinpoint lists of recipients of Ramadhan foodstuffs’ basket and new housing

The Ministry of labour, employment and social security has launched a new social-benefit oriented operation through the pressing of CD ROMs containing the names and addresses of the members of the social security funds and the national pension fund.

These recorded CD ROMs meant as a “Data Bank” will be made available to local assemblies and municipalities and departments for conducting administrative investigations with regard to the granting of new state-subsidized housing units as well as of Ramadan foodstuffs baskets destined to the needy and vulnerable sections of the Algerian population.

Informed sources told “Echorouk” that the Ministry of employment and labour put at the disposal of the local assemblies a new electronic information program designed to facilitate the administrative investigations undertaken by various bodies, municipalities and administrative departments into the files and applications submitted by needy citizens at their level and related to the acquisition of new housing and the staple commodities’ baskets during the holy month of fasting of Ramadhan.

This comes in the context of facilitating the performance of the public administration and easing the burden of red tape and bureaucratic practices, according to the same sources.

The action will also ensure full transparency in the preparation of the lists of beneficiaries of social benefit during the upcoming month of Ramadhan and prevent local street protests from taking place in the distribution process as a result.

Meanwhile, the Director of employment,  labour and social security department, in Algiers, Mohamed Cherifeddine Boudiaf, said in a statement to “Echorouk” that the new procedure was in line with the ongoing public service reform, and aims at speeding up the processing of the various pending files by the local municipalities’ services and to relieve the pressure on citizens by sparing them the trouble of moving towards the numerous social security agencies scattered across the country.