MULTAN, Aug 6 The Punjab government has decided to accommodate flood victims of Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur and Muzaffargarh in Lodhran and Multan districts.

According to Lodhran District Coordination Officer Ghulam Farid, the district administration was asked to make arrangements for a temporary accommodation of flood victims of Dera Ghazi Khan.

He said at least 13 vehicles were sent to collect the flood victims from Dera Ghazi Khan on Thursday, but so far they had not been dispatched from there.

The DCO said arrangements had been made to accommodate 100 families in Dunyapur and as many families in Lodhran.

He said flood victims would be provided accommodation in schools and other government buildings where they would be provided every sort of relief goods.

“According to my information, the victims were reluctant to leave their home district, but arrangements are final here to accommodate them,” he said.

Mr Farid said the vehicles sent by the district administration were being used to evacuate the people from the flood-hit areas.

On the other hand, he said victims from Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur started reaching Multan and about 155 people were provided shelter in Government Muslim Boys High School and some 75 in Government Pilot Secondary School.

Multan DCO Muhammad Khurram Agha said 75 wagons had been sent to Muzaffargarh for the shifting of flood victims.He said seven relief camps had been established at Government Higher Secondary School in Jalalpur Pirwala, Government High School in Shujaabad, Government MC Primary School in Delhi Gate, Government MC Girls Middle School in Tibi Sher Khan, Islamia Boys High School in Daulat Gate, Government Pilot Secondary School and Government Muslim Boys High School.

The DCO said the medical and mess facilities were being provided to flood victims in relief camps.

He said the district government had sent 33 trucks of relief goods, 5,000 packets of ORS and 1,130 cauldrons of rice and other cooked items to flood-hit people in Muzaffargarh district while five ambulances, 12 medical officers, 12 dispensers and a truck of medicines to relief camps in Kot Addu and Chowk Sarwar Shaheed.

Prime Minister's Media Coordinator Khawaja Rizwan Alam said the prime minister took a strict notice of the slow pace of relief activities in southern Punjab and directed the NDMA officials to accelerate relief activities in Muzaffargarh, Layyah, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur.

He said the prime minister and the federal ministers would continue visiting the flood-affected areas.