Government launches digital application platform for transportation aid beneficiaries

Government Spokesperson Mustapha Baitas announced the government will create a digital platform, to enable transportation professionals to apply for government aid, in light of the current fuel price spikes.

Following Baitas’ closed meeting with the Minister Delegate in Charge of the Budget Faouzi Lekjaa, and Minister of Transport and Logistics Mohamed Abdel Jalil, the official confirmed to press that the platform “will allow the sector professionals to apply for the aid, after meeting with Union representatives throughout last weeks.”

The professionals’ applications on the newly announced platform “will allow the government to cerne the budget required for the sectoral aid, while identifying the beneficiaries.”

The government chose the Barid Al-Maghrib bank to manage and distribute the emergency aid plan to the applicant transport professionals.

Although non-declared and informal transportation professionals will likely not benefit from the aid, the amount granted to each party will be determined on the basis of their transportation activity, which ranges from long-haul commercial transportation to cab drivers and delivery companies.

Despite having held multiple rounds of meetings and talks with transportation Unions, the government’s aid was delayed due to officials’ disagreement on the way the aid will be distributed, and the exact budget that will be allocated to the professionals, as previously reported by Hespress.

The government has therefore decided that a digital and direct medium, meaning the application platform, would be the viable solution to solve the identification, distribution, and budgeting dilemmas.

This platform now constitutes the first formal step the government has taken since it announced its transportation aid plans, after Mohamed Abdel Jalil had announced a two-week deadline to present the method and the amounts that transport professionals will benefit from.