CM Murad Secures $92m WB Aid For Relief, Rehab Of Flood-Hit.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has sucAcessfully got an approvAal of $92 million from World Bank for relief and rehabilitation of the flood affected people.

The CM presented the 'Sindh case' in his meetAing with the World Bank Country Director Najy Behhassine.

The chief minister also presented a case of the rehabilitation of the irrigation and drainage network which would cost around $1000 milAlion for which the World Bank team would asAsess the damages and present the case to the board for approval.

Murad said that Sindh had received an unAprecedented rainfall in the monsoon season of July-August 2022. 'The magnitude of it can be assessed from the fact that it has rained more than 308 percent over and above the average rainfall in July and 784 percent above the averAage rainfall in August. The flash floods of 2010 had affected only Right Bank of river Indus and were mainly riverine caused by heavy outAflows from the north of Pakistan resulted in the death of 414 humans, whereas, the floods of 2011 were the outcome of heavy rainfalls imApacting mostly Left Bank of river Indus,' he added.

He said that in the wake of the 2011 floods, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) had conducted a Damage and Needs Assessment (DNA) and reported that out of total of Rs324.5 billion damage estimates of the entire country, Sindh suffered the most to the extent of Rs310.7 billion.

'Unfortunately, the current rainfalls have proved more destrucAtive with a widespread impact on all the 30 disAtricts of the province which have been directly affected. This unprecAedented rainfall has not only caused...

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