Kurdistani Alliance rejects decision of canceling Ration Card

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The parliamentary bloc of the Kurdistani Alliance rejected the decision of the Council of Ministers over canceling the Ration Card.

A statement by the bloc mentioned that “Kurdistani bloc rejects the resolution of canceling the Ration Card and replacing it with financial grants.”

“We see that this decision will not serve the poor citizens with low-income because it will lead to an increase in the prices of the food materials which in turn will lead to a big jump in rate of the inflation,” it added.

“Moreover, Iraq lacks the banking services required to distribute the financial sums allocated to the citizens which will be an additional factor in corruption we have seen in distributing previous financial grants,” the statement concluded.

It is worth mentioning that the CoM has announced, on last Tuesday, the replacement of the Ration Card with financial allocations starting from the beginning of the next March, 2013.