Report SN Peerzada
BOONI, Aug 24: One month after the flash floods devastated and wiped off a number of villages in different parts of Chitral on July 25, the government has taken no steps to rehabilitate the affected people except handing them food packets.
Even the departments concerned took almost a month to reopen the only road connecting upper and lower Chitral that was washed away near Kuragh on July 17. In the meanwhile, public representatives in Chitral continue looking towards the KP government and making tall claims about the rehabilitation of the displaced people.
On the other hand, the PTI-led provincial government seems more interested in publicizing Imran Khan in the flood-hit valley by handing over a China blanket, 20 kg wheat flour along with a publicity pamphlet carrying the portrait of Imran Khan to some of the affected families.
The government had initially announced that the owners of the completely damaged houses would be provided Rs500,000 each while after being declared as a calamity-hit district the people of Chitral would get wheat at half of the current rate and all their agricultural bank loans would be waived.
However, so far no action has been taken on these promises.
The flood-affected people compalined that the announcement by the government to rehabilitate them in safer places also turned out to be a hollow promise.
They said apart from teh short-term measures the governmnet should devide a long-term plan to rehabilitate the displaced people.
It seems the only class in the above article is PTI. For your information all the organizations working in relief are doing there publicity too, Imran Khan foundation is no exception. You never mentioned the delay on the part of FWO in opening the roads, you should be reporting that too. We Chitralis are very fond of the Pak Fouj slogan, whereas our army was distributing relief items provided by PDMA and the heli fuels paid by Federal and provincial governments.
کانو ساری غیچ مشکیسان کھوٹوساری ڈیک ۔۔۔۔۔ گوم سری بیار مشکیسان ھیس تا سادای