Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed all stakeholders to initiate comprehensive rehabilitation efforts for flood-affected people.
Chairing a meeting, she said the Punjab government had decided to launch a large-scale flood relief and rehabilitation operation across the province.
During the meeting, it was agreed to establish flood relief committees at the district and tehsil levels along with developing survey forms, a mobile application and a central monitoring dashboard to ensure effective aid distribution and oversight.
The chief minister will monitor the relief operations through the dashboard.
She directed the relevant authorities to devise the simplest and most effective procedures for providing assistance to flood victims.
She also directed the authorities to ensure immediate restoration of roads, bridges and other damaged infrastructure in flood-affected areas.
According to a briefing given by the revenue department, the floods have impacted 3,775 villages across 64 tehsils in 27 districts of Punjab.
A total of 63,200 concrete and 309,684 mud houses have been damaged.
The survey teams will include representatives from the Urban Unit, revenue department, agriculture department and Pakistan Army.
She directed the authorities to establish more relief camps and distribution points.
Inaugurating an electric bus project in Sargodha, the CM said the owner of each house destroyed by the floods would be paid Rs1 million and damaged house Rs500,000.
She announced that the rehabilitation operations will start within two weeks.
She said over 2.5 million people and 2.2 million livestock had been relocated to safe areas and relief teams had delivered food, medicines and milk to remote areas.
She added that India’s sudden release of water had exacerbated flooding, but due to effective preparedness and the government’s swift response, massive losses had been averted.
Meanwhile, rescue and relief activities continued in flood-affected areas of Muzaffargarh.
Flood relief tent cities have been set up in Bait Malan Wali and Azmat Pur.
