By Okidi Patrick/ NORTHERN UGANDA CORRESPONDENT.
LIRA: implementation status at Lira district is making many beneficiaries to smile as it disbursement level stands at 96%( percent).
By Monday the 30th, October,2023,the PDM disbursement status for the amount of loan given out was at 96%( percent )according to the Lira district senior commercial Officer, Mr Santos Olade.
Olade came out with a detailed comprehensive report to the members of the media in an interview held yesterday from his office at the current Lira district headquarters.
He said ,the total amount of money received by 58 parishes hosting 58 SACCOs to date in Lira district is 6,471,789,824.At least 896 total enterprise groups were registered and out of which 872 total number were served.
Santo noted that 5,825 number of households were served, with male 2,796 with loan value disbursed standing at 2,796,000,000 shillings.
However 3,029 were female beneficiaries .
The number of Youth who benefited from the disbursed PDM loan were 1,748,whereas the PWDs who got the money were 301 beneficiaries.
Coupled with these,the number of elderly beneficiaries are 1,456at the moment.
The above PDM comphriensive implementation status report which was released on the 30th October,2023 summarises all the disbursement for Lira district with the exception of only about four percent(4%) being worked on concurrently due to some few challenges.
Lira Disrict was rated among the best performing district in Emyoga programs recently and this btimw round bit is again doing so well in PDM implementation status report.
Two weeks ago, the PDM deputy National coordinator at the secretariat Ms Kalisa Kyomukama stormed Kole district headquarters and arrested one of the district senior and high ranking Officer over PDM related issues.
Apac district was however recognised by Kalisa for being the overall best performing district in the Lango sub-region as far as disbursement of PDM fund was concerned standing at 100%.
Omoro district in Acholi sub-region was rated as almost the worst performing district rated at 16% by the middle of October,2023 as per the impromptu visit made by the team from the PDM secretariat.