Funds to be released soon after damage survey: Minister.

LAHORE -- Punjab Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Environment Protection and Cooperatives Muhammad Basharat Raja on Thursday said that distribution of rehabilitation funds would be started as soon as the damage survey was completed in the flood-affected areas of Punjab.

Presiding over a review meeting at the Civil Secretariat, he directed that the teams involved in the survey should work with a missionary spirit and pay special attention to transparency so that the entitled people could get their right, accordingly.

Provincial Finance Minister Mohsin Khan Laghari, Senior Member Board of Revenue (SMBR) Zahid Akhtar Zaman and Member Colonies 3 Shahid Niaz also attended the meeting.

In the meeting, the rehabilitation measures in the flood affected areas of Punjab were reviewed. The SMBR informed the provincial ministers that the damage assessment survey in the flood affected areas was expected to be completed by September 17. In this regard, he apprised, the teams were busy in the affected areas.

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