Floods 2012: Chief Secretary Punjab declares Rojhan calamity-hit area
Khosa directs local government officials to expedite rescue and relief activities in the area.
LAHORE:
Chief Secretary Punjab Nasir Mahmood Khosa has directed officers to utilise all available resources for the rehabilitation of flood affected and mitigating their difficulties as he declared Tehsil Rojhan a calamity-hit area.
Khosa directed Secretary Agriculture to conduct a survey to assess losses caused to the houses, and crops as well as other damages.
The chief secretary was addressing the affectees in Tehsil Rojhan after an aerial inspection of the flood-hit areas of District Rajanpur.
He directed to expedite relief activities as well as the process of evacuating people inundated by flood and that officers should play an active role in this regard.
Provincial Minister for Agriculture Malik Ahmed Ali, Commissioner DG Khan Tariq Mahmood Khan, Secretary Agriculture Muhammad Mushtaq Khan, RPO Muhammad Nawaz Warraich, DCO Ghazi Aman Ullah Khan, DPO Dr Shehzad Asif, DG PDMA Mujahid Sherdil and DOC Syed Agha Hussain Shah besides officers of other concerned departments also accompanied the Chief Secretary.
A mobile health unit and 20 more boats were being sent for rescue operation, Khosa informed the people, as well as 2000 tents being dispatched by the Punjab Government. He said he would visit the area on Thursday to review relief activities.
Commissioner Tariq Mahmood Khan directed that tents, boats and medical facilities should be immediately provided in places where flood affectees have been shifted. DCO Rajanpur Ghazi Aman Ullah Khan, while giving a briefing on the flood, informed that 12 relief camps had been set up in district Rajanpur where food and healthcare were being provided to the affectees by the district government whereas the livestock department was also active in vaccinating livestock.
The DCO informed that presently rain water and hill-torrents in Kaha Sultan and Chachar was passing through Tehsil Rojhan and its direction has been diverted towards River Indus in order to save Rojhan city.
Army, police, revenue and rescue 1122 staff was working round-the-clock in relief efforts in Rojhan, the DCO said, adding that 18 Rescue 1122 boats had been deployed to aid in relief activities. More than five thousand people have been evacuated and shifted to safer places.
Providing details of the damage caused, DCO Khan said that 109 villages of district Rajanpur have been affected by the floods while crops over an area of 195,000 acres have been damaged. At least four people have lost their lives due to the flood.
Chief Secretary Punjab Nasir Mahmood Khosa has directed officers to utilise all available resources for the rehabilitation of flood affected and mitigating their difficulties as he declared Tehsil Rojhan a calamity-hit area.
Khosa directed Secretary Agriculture to conduct a survey to assess losses caused to the houses, and crops as well as other damages.
The chief secretary was addressing the affectees in Tehsil Rojhan after an aerial inspection of the flood-hit areas of District Rajanpur.
He directed to expedite relief activities as well as the process of evacuating people inundated by flood and that officers should play an active role in this regard.
Provincial Minister for Agriculture Malik Ahmed Ali, Commissioner DG Khan Tariq Mahmood Khan, Secretary Agriculture Muhammad Mushtaq Khan, RPO Muhammad Nawaz Warraich, DCO Ghazi Aman Ullah Khan, DPO Dr Shehzad Asif, DG PDMA Mujahid Sherdil and DOC Syed Agha Hussain Shah besides officers of other concerned departments also accompanied the Chief Secretary.
A mobile health unit and 20 more boats were being sent for rescue operation, Khosa informed the people, as well as 2000 tents being dispatched by the Punjab Government. He said he would visit the area on Thursday to review relief activities.
Commissioner Tariq Mahmood Khan directed that tents, boats and medical facilities should be immediately provided in places where flood affectees have been shifted. DCO Rajanpur Ghazi Aman Ullah Khan, while giving a briefing on the flood, informed that 12 relief camps had been set up in district Rajanpur where food and healthcare were being provided to the affectees by the district government whereas the livestock department was also active in vaccinating livestock.
The DCO informed that presently rain water and hill-torrents in Kaha Sultan and Chachar was passing through Tehsil Rojhan and its direction has been diverted towards River Indus in order to save Rojhan city.
Army, police, revenue and rescue 1122 staff was working round-the-clock in relief efforts in Rojhan, the DCO said, adding that 18 Rescue 1122 boats had been deployed to aid in relief activities. More than five thousand people have been evacuated and shifted to safer places.
Providing details of the damage caused, DCO Khan said that 109 villages of district Rajanpur have been affected by the floods while crops over an area of 195,000 acres have been damaged. At least four people have lost their lives due to the flood.