Sindh Govt is carrying out relief and rehabilitation activities across the province: Sharjeel.

KARACHI -- Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that Sindh Government is carrying out relief and rehabilitation activities across the province and the flood water is also receding while affectees have started to return to their homes. He added that 30 percent of flood hit people have returned home from relief camps in Hyderabad. He said that district administrations are providing them transport facility and ration as well. The minister said that every flood hit area has its own dynamics, it will take 15 days, some areas will take 30 days, while others may take 3 months to drain out rain/flood water. The minister said this while addressing a presser at Sindh Archives Complex, Clifton Karachi on Monday. Sindh Minister said that the Sindh government is focusing on draining out the stagnant flood water, in this regard, the Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah is convening meetings with the Irrigation Department on a daily basis. He said that the pumping machinery of the Karachi Water Board and KMC have also been mobilized apart from the utilization of the heavy machinery of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority to ensure the drainage of rainwater from the affected areas as soon as possible. He said that philanthropists and NGOs have also been asked to help the government in draining out rainwater and provide pumping motors so that the rehabilitation work would be started in flood hit areas after the drainage of accumulated flood water.

He told that rehabilitation phase will be consisted on two types such as houses would be constructed to flood affectees whose houses have collapsed during flood while those farmers, whose crops have been destroyed, they would also be given relief in order to reschedule their loans. In order to rehabilitate them, Sindh government has contacted with various banks so that their loans can be rescheduled and most of the banks have shown their positive response in...