HYDERABAD, Jan 11: The district government has established complaint and data collection centres at the offices of the DDOs (revenue) of the four talukas to receive public complaints/claims about losses/damages caused to their moveable and immoveable property during disturbances in the aftermath of assassination of Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto.

The officers concerned have been assigned to complete the task within two weeks.

This was decided at a meeting of revenue officers of Hyderabad district at the office of DCO Aftab Ahmed Khatri here on Friday.He informed the meeting that the national commission for assessment of the losses and recommendation of payment of compensation to the affected people had decided to constitute district committees -- comprising DCOs, DPOs and EDOs revenue -- to collect and verify the applications/claims.

He said that the district committees had been authorised to constitute sub-committees to collect and verify the claims and eeping in view the gigantic task, the district committee had constituted four sub-committees with establishment of complaint and data collecting centres to collect details of the losses.

He directed the revenue officers to collect details of losses/damage caused to human life, private vehicles, shops, cabins, houses, petrol pumps, factories and business on separate forms to be filled by affected people.

He asked the officials to arrange photocopies of the forms of applications for compensation claims of each category of losses in sufficient number, provide them to claimants, get these forms filled on case to case basis by individual claimants and submit them to the district committee for verification and onward transmission.

The DCO said that the exercise should be carried out on a war footing and the complaint/data collection centres should remain open even during holidays.

He said that the district committee had been assigned to furnish a summary of each category of losses/damage in a fortnight i.e. till Jan 23.

The DCO directed the officers to give priority to this task and warned that no negligence would be tolerated in completion of this assignment.

He asked the affected people to immediately contact the DDO revenue or Mukhtiarkar of their taluka and furnish details of losses/damage.

EDO revenue Syed Barkat Ahmed Rizvi, the DDOs and Mukhtiarkars of the district attended the meeting.