Quetta (LTN NEWS): On Monday, PM Shehbaz Sharif took a look at the relief efforts in Balochistan and told the authorities to give flood victims money within 24 hours.
136 people have died because of the terrible floods.
During his day-long trip to the provincial capital, the premier talked to the media after visiting the camps set up for flood victims. He said that he was sorry that the flood victims didn’t have access to basic facilities like food and water.
The prime minister gave the order when he went to see the tent city set up for flood victims in the Khusnob area of the Qila Saifullah district.
He asked the National Disaster and Management Authority (NDMA) and the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to speed up the rescue and relief efforts so that the victims could get the most help.
The prime minister said that the district administrations involved should be punished right away. He also said that Balochistan’s chief minister, Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, had told him that action would be taken against those responsible.
The prime minister said that he had given orders to make sure that relief camps got food starting today.
CM Bizenjo, who was also there, then told the provincial chief secretary that the officials in charge should be fired if the relief camps didn’t get food.
“We were told that people had been given enough food for a month,” he said. He then told the chief secretary to look into the situation and suspend the DC, tehsildar, PDMA in-charge, and relevant team if there was no food.
He told the prime minister, “They are all suspended, and there will be action taken against them.”
The chief minister said again that if a camp wasn’t getting the right help, the DC and other officials in charge of that camp should consider themselves suspended.
Earlier, the PM had also complained that there were no records of patients at medical camps in tent cities and asked the CM to do something about it.
He also asked for an investigation to find out if people were actually getting care at these medical camps or if “it was all on paper.”
He said that the federal government and the provincial government would work together to help families and businesses that had been hurt by the rain and flooding.
“The federal government has promised Rs1 million in compensation, and the provincial government has already given out Rs1 million,” he said, adding that a house that was only partially damaged would get Rs200,000 and a house that was completely destroyed would get Rs500,000.
PM was told about relief efforts in the area before he talked to the media.
During the briefing, which was shown on TV, the PM was told that relief camps had been set up in Qila Saifullah, Quetta, Kech, and Lasbela in Balochistan.
He was told that animals and crops had also been hurt, but that a survey would be done in the third phase of the relief operation to get a better idea of how much damage had been done.
This is the second time in a week that PM Shehbaz has gone to Balochistan to oversee relief efforts.
He went to the parts of the province that were flooded on Saturday and told flood victims that they would get all the help and support they needed to be rescued and get back on their feet.
During a visit to a tent city for flood victims in Qila Saifullah district, the PM spoke to the media and asked officials to be held accountable for not giving people food and water.
“When I was here and at other camps, I heard that the people weren’t getting food or water. People were very clear that they were not getting food or water, and when I asked them how they were getting by, they told me that they had to send someone back home to get food.
“It’s a terrible shame that these camps don’t have food or water,” he said.
Flooding in Balochistan has killed 136 people so far
The number of people who have died in flood-hit areas of Balochistan has risen to 136, and 70 people have been hurt.
A report from the Provincial Disaster Management Authority says that 13,535 homes have collapsed or are partially damaged because of the heavy rains and flooding that are still going on.
Rain and flooding have also done a lot of damage to six highways that stretch for 640 kilometers. In the meantime, large-scale relief and rebuilding efforts are going on in all of the province’s affected areas.
