Museveni Orders Banks To Stop Deducting PDM Cash

President Yoweri Museveni has ordered all commercial banks to immediately stop deducting bank charges from Parish Development Model (PDM) money. 

The president who has been addressing the gathering at the 39th NRM/A liberations celebrations at Mubende National Teachers' College in Mubende District. 

The president noted that he has discovered from his countrywide PDM assessment tours that the banks remove bank charges from the Shs 1million yet the intention was to give the beneficiaries a full million shillings. 

He said that government has resolved to pay off all the bank charges on PDM money. 

Parish Development model is a strategy for organizing and delivering public and private sector interventions for wealth creation and employment generation at the parish level as the lowest economic planning unit.

The Parish Development Model is made up of seven pillars: Production, processing and marketing(value chain development) ,Infrastructure and Economic services , Financial inclusion ,Social services Community data(Community information system).

Governance and Administration Mindset change Government has identified and prioritized development of 18 commodities under the Parish Development Model and these include: Coffee, Cotton, Cocoa, Cassava, Tea, Vegetable Oils/Palm Oil, Maize, Rice, Sugarcane, Fish, Diary, Beef, Bananas, Beans ,Avocado, Shea Nut, Cashew Nuts & Macadamia Nuts. Concept of The Parish