Compensation delay: HRCP calls for paying Mirani Dam displaced
WAPDA has shifted the responsibility of compensation payments to the Planning Commission.
HRCP called for either organisation to solve the matter at priority and pay the victims who have been protesting for over a year.
LAHORE:
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the Planning Commission and the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to settle compensation claims by people displaced by the Mirani Dam floods.
In a statement issued today the commission said peasants from Turbat, Balochistan, have been camping in front of WAPDA House and held hunger strikes they should not have been forced to undertake. They represent as many as 15,000 families uprooted because of the dam’s reverse flow.
Their claim to compensation is said to have been approved quite some time ago but no payment has been made yet.
The statement added that WAPDA has shifted the responsibility of compensation payments to the Planning Commission.
HRCP called for either organisation to solve the matter at priority and pay the victims who have been protesting for over a year.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2013.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the Planning Commission and the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to settle compensation claims by people displaced by the Mirani Dam floods.
In a statement issued today the commission said peasants from Turbat, Balochistan, have been camping in front of WAPDA House and held hunger strikes they should not have been forced to undertake. They represent as many as 15,000 families uprooted because of the dam’s reverse flow.
Their claim to compensation is said to have been approved quite some time ago but no payment has been made yet.
The statement added that WAPDA has shifted the responsibility of compensation payments to the Planning Commission.
HRCP called for either organisation to solve the matter at priority and pay the victims who have been protesting for over a year.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2013.