KHAIRPUR, Aug 21 Water level has decreased by two to three feet from the embankment of Zero point to those of Ulra and Fareedabad.

According to reports, flood victims of katcha areas of Khairpur district were awaiting return to their areas as soon as possible.

Besides the district administration, citizens especially young people were showing great enthusiasm to help flood victims living in various relief camps.

President of the Anjuman-e-Tajiran Khairpur Qutbuddin Shaikh told Dawn on Saturday that they had arranged food and medicines for flood victims staying in the Mumtaz College relief camp.

He said that they had also arranged a doctor for IDPs.

A group of youth belonging to a colony of Khairpur collected food from door to door and distributed it among the victims.

A young man told this correspondent that residents of Luqman were providing food to the flood victims voluntarily at different meal times.Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman held a meeting with high officials at DCO office Khairpur on Friday night in which it was decided that a tent city would be established along the National Highway near Old Bahria School Building.

Khairpur Administrator Mohammad Abbas Baloch briefed the chief secretary that around 240 villages in katcha area of four talukas of the district had been destroyed and people suffered huge losses, including livestock.

The DCO also briefed the chief secretary about the arrangements made by the district administration for food, health and other facilities to the flood victims.

Focal person for flood situation EDO (revenue) Umer Farooque Bullo and other officials attended the meeting.

Meanwhile, the DCO of Khairpur has sent a health team to Faiz Ganj and other areas to provide treatment to flood victims for gastro.

He also directed the Mukhtiarkar Sobhodero to arrange more food, health and other facilities for people staying at the Saghiyoon embankment. Earlier, flood-affected women staged a demonstration led by Sassui Lak and Sohni Mallah at Saghiyoon embankment.

They complained that no attention was paid to them and they were not being provided food and health facilities after their migration from their village in katcha area.