Web Desk (LTN NEWS): At a separate meeting with the guests, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali and Sindh Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput talked in detail about the monsoon rains that had never happened before.
Shah said that the recent flood is a bigger disaster than the floods in 2010 and 2011 because the situation got worse when the Indus flooded at the Guddu and Sukkur barrages, flooding the whole riverine area.
At the meeting, the chief secretary said that 24 districts, 102 talukas, and 5,727 deaths had been named disaster-hit areas.
The chief minister said that money was needed right away to pay for compensation for deaths, injuries, damage to homes and loss of livestock, damage to crops, waiver of interest on the agricultural loans,s and rescheduling of loan repayment by delaying it for at least one year, and subsidy on agricultural machinery, fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds for farmers in flood-hit areas.
He said that the people in the camps who were affected by the rain needed one million tents, three million mosquito nets, 2 million ration bags for two months, one million jerry cans and one million kitchen sets, 500,000 plastic mats, 500,000 woolen mattresses, and tarpaulin.
He said that Karachi would need Rs50 billion to fix or rebuild its roads, bridges, and sewer system.
