Helping hand: Punjab MPAs, officers to donate one day’s pay

Gorchani assured of maximum support from the Punjab government for the relief and rehabilitation of quake victims.

HUB:

Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly Sardar Sher Ali Gorchani has said that earthquake-stricken people of Balochistan will not be left alone in this difficult time.

“Members of Punjab Assembly and officers of grade 16 and above will donate their one day’s salary towards the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund,” Gorchani told the media while sending off relief goods to the quake-hit Awaran district from Balochistan’s industrial town of Hub that borders Karachi.

He assured of maximum support from the Punjab government for the relief and rehabilitation of quake victims.

He said following the instructions of the Punjab Chief Minister, relief goods were being dispatched to Awaran on a daily basis to minimise the sufferings of the Baloch brothers.

So far 30 truckloads of relief goods donated by the Punjab government including tents and rations have reached the affected areas, while 20 more trucks would leave Hub for Awaran on Tuesday.

He said that the Punjab government will construct houses for displaced people and a hospital in Awaran.

Gorchani said that a liaison office has been established for coordination between Punjab and Balochistan governments regarding relief and rehabilitation work in the affected areas.

Provincial ministers of Punjab Chaudhry Abdul Waheed and Chaudhry Muhammad Shafiq and officials of Punjab government were also present on the occasion. 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2013.