Fuvahmulah City Council completes disbursing Zakat-Al-Fitr for this year

Fuvahmulah City Council has revealed that they have distributed Zakat-Al-Fitr among those registered as poor in the city.
Each of the less-fortunate residents received MVR 747 each, as Zakat-Al-Fitr this year.
The city council revealed that they have completed the process of distributing Zakat among those in need, for the Islamic year 1441.
According to the council, a total of 241 individuals registered as less-fortunate this year.
While the city council collected MVR 180,041.95 through Zakat payments this year, the amount was disbursed among the deserving, at a rate of MVR 747.06.
The council revealed that a majority of the city residents had made Zakat payments this year, and that they had accepted the payments through internet banking, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The city has a population of 12,790.
The amount for Zakat is deemed to be money worth 2.4 kg of rice grain per person. Islamic Ministry said that one must donate money worth 2.4 kg of the general type of rice grains used by the individual throughout the year. The average person has to pay MVR 15 per person if calculated with normal rice grains, MVR 48 if its Thai rice grains, MVR 105 if its Basmati rice, MVR 65 if it is red rice, MVR 12 for normal flour and MVR 55 for Atta flour, as Zakat.
Earlier, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs revealed that they had received over MVR two million in Zakat payments this year.
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