KARACHI, Nov 16: To increase relief activities for the earthquake-affected people, the Sindh government on Wednesday decided to set up more relief camps and bases in the city on an emergency basis.

A meeting, presided over by Sindh Chief Secretary Fazulur Rehman, held to review the relief work decided to spur the pace of relief activities. In this regard the provincial government and city district government Karachi (CDGK) were given the task to set up two dozen relief camps and two relief bases in the city on an emergency basis. One of the bases is being set up in the Coaching Centre near the National Stadium.

These camps would collect donations, especially food items, from citizens and send them to the quake-affected people.

Pakistan Railways’ Divisional Marketing Manager Fauzia Khan assured the meeting that the railways would dispatch tents and other relief goods from Karachi to the affected areas by running a special train. She said steps were being taken to ensure that this train would reach its destination in three days, instead of its normal four-day journey.

During the meeting, the secretaries of food, commerce and industries were given the task to get cooperation of the mill owners and merchants to donate wheat flour, ghee, cooking oil, pulses, biscuits and other eatables for the earthquake-hit people.— PPI