Dr. Bawumia Launches E-Travel Card For Public Officials

The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has introduced the launch of an e-Journey Card for all public officers within the nation.

Dr. Bawumiah defined in a Fb publish that amongst the quite a few advantages of this new card, it might additionally regulate the overspending by public officers whereas their budgetary allocations for travels will also be monitored and managed higher.

He posted;

“Since Independence, public officers are offered money for his or her imprest after they journey. This technique has many related issues together with the dangers of carrying money, fraud within the disbursement of imprest, the growing use of cashless cost channels in lots of jurisdictions, ineffective monitoring, and controls, and so on.

E-Journey Card will facilitate the cashless disbursement of journey allowance and different funds for native and overseas journeys of public officers.

All officers will likely be issued with the e-Journey card and their imprest and per diem for journey will robotically be placed on the cardboard to be used”. He pointed

The e-Journey Card is anticipated to ship a number of advantages, together with the elimination of the chance of carrying money; transparency and ease of accountability; well timed retirement of accountable Imprest; and improved monitoring and controls of budgetary allocations for official travels to keep away from overspending.

The period of money for journey within the public sector will quickly be over, bringing additional transparency and accountability in the usage of public funds.’

SOURCE: www.PressInformant