The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh chapter has set up a relief fund for rain-affected persons in the province, with the party’s Sindh president Nisar Khuhro directing PPP senators, MNAs and MPAs in the province to deposit a month’s salary in the fund. Confirming the development, Khuhro told The Express Tribune that the Sindh government and PPP would help the rain-affected persons in every possible way, including providing them rations and resettling displaced citizens in their home. He added that relief camps were being set up in rain-hit districts, while district administrations had been directed to immediately administer mosquito repellent sprats and insecticides. Khuhro stated that the houses damaged by the recent torrential rains would also be surveyed, after which the affectees would be rehabilitated. Moreover, he said that the provincial government had waived irrigation fees for 20 districts that had been declared calamity-affected areas. He further demanded that the federal government waive the agricultural loans of people in these districts. Over 2.4 million people have been displaced by flooding in Sindh in recent weeks, according to the provincial chief minister.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2020.
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