Govt takes pain to bring life to normal in flood affected areas of Tank, DIKhan.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN -- The government is striving to provide relief and rehabilitate the flood affected areas of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan

The prime minister rightly says that no politics on floods would be done and the federal and provincial government would work together to provide relief to flood victims of the country.

As part of such efforts, Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday visited to the flood affected areas of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan.

During the visit he was briefed on the damages and relief activities in flood affected areas of the two districts.

The prime minister was informed that a total of 437 houses were damaged besides causing damage to the standing crop, livestock in Pai, Ranwal and its adjoining including Shahbaz Garah, Chirhi, Therhi areas of Tank.

The National Disaster Management Authority(NDMA) on behalf of the federal government distributed five food load trucks besides providing compensation worth Rs one million to families who suffered human losses each.

The district administrations of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan made effective measures for rehabilitation and relief of flood affectees areas.

An amount to the tune of Rs 5 lakh would be given for completely damaged houses each while Rs 250,000 is being given to partially damaged houses. Similarly, the KP government provided Rs8 lac to the families of each victim.

In these of Tank, three medical camps were established while one temporary camp was set up in Amakhel area and provided medical treatment. Similarly, clean drinking water was arranged for these areas after pumping out rain water from the area.

The prime minister also visited the flood affected area of Prova where a relief camp was established in a Ramak school where about 200 to 300 families were given food and noon food items besides provision of medical treatment.

The flash flood damaged about 293 houses besides destroying 1720 hectares of agricultural land. The prime minister also interacted with flood affected people of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan and assured full support of the government in this challenging time.

The prime minister also addressed at certain points during the visit flood-hit areas of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan stressing collective responsibility of federal and provincial...