46 new villages planned

Govt plans to build 46 villages in the next three months in different districts for flood victims.


Express November 13, 2010

KARACHI: The government plans to build 46 villages in the next three months in different districts with the help of the private sector and civil society, many of who have adopted villages.

These plans and intentions were discussed on the second day of a conference ‘Floods and Beyond: Recovery, Reconstruction and Reforms’ organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, South Asia Partnership Pakistan, Centre for Peace and Civil Society and Sungi Development Foundation on Friday.

Adviser Kaisar Bengali said that the new villages would be built near existing towns and would ultimately become a part of them. They will have five-room schools, clinics, safe drinking water and a complete sewerage system.

The plan is to install 100 water purification plants in flood-hit areas with 5,000 units of water filters by the end of 2011. More than 11,000 villages and 20 major towns in Sindh drowned.

The Urban Resource Centre’s Arif Hassan commented on how the entire forest land is occupied illegally.

Brig Sajid Naeem from the National Disaster Management Authority pointed out that there is a lack of coordination among departments. The NDMA doesn’t have its own funds and donor money helps run it.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2010.

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