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THATTA, Aug 12: The District Relief Committee has demanded the provincial government for an additional allocation of Rs5 million for the on-going relief work in the district.
It demanded this in a meeting on Tuesday held at the Circuit House, Makli, under the chairmanship of Syed Aijaz Ali Shah Shirazi.
It approved some 162 committees for 54 union councils comprising the Taluka Mukhtiarkar, Nazim of the union council concerned, and people of each community to asses the losses, particularly in the agricultural and housing sectors, so as to extend maximum relief to the affected people.
The meeting was told that a total number of 40,457 patients admitted at 63 medical camps suffering from diarrhoea, skin infections, eye infections and malaria had been treated during the last 14 days.
The meeting was told that a total of 31 people had been killed during the rains in seven Talukas of the district and 80 per cent crops had been destroyed, including sugarcane and cotton.
GOVERNMENT FLAYED: People’s Party Parliamentarians MPAs from Thatta, Sassui Palejo and Humera Alwani, while criticizing the provincial and Thatta district governments’ performance, said that mere distribution of relief goods to the affected population was no remedy.
They said the fact was that the people of Thatta and Badin were the worst affected due to the torrential rains and required long-term relief.
The meeting was attended by MQM MPA Heer Soho, Thatta District Nazim Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi, and Colonel Amir, who has been assigned to monitor the relief operation.
BREACH: A 100-ft-wide breach developed in the embankment of the Bachal Shah Sim Nala at RD-36 in Mirpur Bathoro Taluka as a result of which six settlements were flooded on Tuesday.
The people immediately informed the executive engineer, Lower Pinyari Division, Obhayo Khushik, but he refused to look into the situation saying he had to attend a meeting in Thatta.
The villagers were left with no alternative but to try to plug the breach all by themselves.
They were still busy trying to plug the breach at the time of filing of this report.
