Ahmed Galal: lot establishes the principal of transparency and justice in benefiting from social services.

Advocating the principal of transparency in treatment methods in public entities, so the Ministry of Finance drew a public lot for the first time to grant 48 hajj visas allocated for the Ministry of Finance by the Cabinet’s Hajj Supreme Committee, in which 26 person are being competed on each visa, wherein 1273 employees in the ministry had submitted to win.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ahmed Galal , affirmed that drawing public lot to grant hajj visas is a new tradition established by the Ministry to implement government's policy in boosting values of justice and transparency with clear rules governing the benefit from social services provided by various Government entities for their employees and even the annual services including Hajj visas.

 The Minister said that the Ministry is keen to practice transparency in all work aspects in the Ministry, whether with the employees in different sectors & authorities of the Ministry, or with the recipients of public services of civil society members.

 General Director of Public Relations ,Tarek Al- Awadi revealed that granting visas to the Ministry authorities and sectors shall be on the basis of applicants numbers from each sector, where he pulled names from 6 boxes representing all the Ministry’s main authorities and sectors, in order to ensure fairness and equal opportunities between the Ministry’s employees, and also draw the lot had been hold in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Ahmed Galal and the Ministry’s heads of authorities and sectors, pointing out that the Ministry specified only one condition, the applicant should be from the existing employees in the Ministry, without requiring a certain age alongside the application of the general conditions for accepting requests from who never do Hajj in the last 5 years at least, and as for women , age is not less than 45 years.

 He pointed to that the 48 winners are Nagat Lotfy El Sayed, Sana Ali Reda, Mahmoud Ahmed Almobset, Samira Sobhy Taha, Rasha Abdel Wahab, Khaled Hassan Mehdi, Hisham Sayed Ahmed, Mahmoud Yehia Mahmoud, Khaled Aboul Fotouh Fadl, Amr Mostafa Alswaby, Aboul Gheit Aboul Wafa Abou Shama, Mohamed Mohamed Alfararjy, Rizqa Mahmoud Mohamed Al-Alfy, Abdel Sattar Mohamed Labib, Fatma Mohamed Saleh, Walid Kamel Abdel-Majid, Abdel Qader Fahmy Mohamed Kilani, Sayed Mohamed Abdel Rahim, Hassanein Mohamed Tawfiq, Mohammed Abdel Sabour Ahmed Gad, Amr Mohamed Abdul Latif, Ashraf Hamdy Nour Al-Din, Mahmoud Mohamed Ibrahim, Randa Mahmoud Ahmed Hussein, Azza Bayoumi Sayed Abdel Gawad, Basem Mohamed Tolba, Reda Moustafa Abdel Aziz, Nesma Najib Faraj, Karim Ahmed Mustafa, Sahar Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed Abdel Wahab Ibrahim, Khaled Mohamed Mahmoud, Sharifa Mohamed Mohamed, Abdel Fattah Mahmoud Ahmed, Nadia Salim Mohamed, Ahmed Abdel Ghany Mohamed, Fatma Alsayed Eid, Nagia Saman Al- Shenawi, Hamdy Qorany Metwaly, Khaled Youssef Al-Sayed, Mohamed Ahmad Abouel macarim, Amjad Mohamed Abouel Soud, Nema Mostafa Abdel Hamid, Majid Ahmed Nasr, Mohammed Sayed Hussain, Samia Abdel Hamid Awad, Ali Raabie Mahmoud, Jamalat Sayed Hassanein.

 (Source : Ministry of Finance)