Strategy formulated to rehabilitate IDPs, their lands: MPA Zardari.

THATTA -- Pakistan PeoAples Party (PPP) MPA Haji Ali Hassan Zardari on Saturday said that the Sindh government had chalked out a strategy for the rehabilitation of the families and areas devastated by recent unprecedented downpours and floods across the province.

Addressing people of his constituency at a gathering here on Saturday, he said coastal areas of Thatta and Sujawal districts were also badly affected by the natural calamity.

He said that the Sindh government had since day one been making all-out efforts to provide all essentially required relief goods to the internally displaced people (IDPs) accommodated in tent cities.

MPA Zardari noted that around 1.8 million families had been affected by the calamity, and pointed out that the Sindh government had decided to give Rs300,000 to each of the families.

'Sindh government is planning to launch a scheme for the restoration of damaged infrastructure, particularly roads and bridges that connect villages with urban areas of these districts,' he said, and added that relief packages for growers would be announced soon for amelioration of the agriculture...