SANGHAR, Oct 1: Two members of the Federal Parliamentarian Committee on relief for rain-hit people reached here on Saturday and took an aerial view of the flooded areas. The members -- MNA Nazar Mohammad Gondal and Senator Nayyar Bukhari -- also visited submerged areas of the city on a boat and witnessed efforts to drain out stagnant water.

Later, talking to the media, they said that the federal government had provided relief goods worth Rs2 billion to the Sindh government. They said that each family of rain victims was being given Rs20,000 through Pakistan Card, besides relief goods.

They said that Sindh was facing a massive disaster because of heavy rains and added that it would take more than two months to dispose of rainwater into the sea.

They said that encroachments in the bed of saline water drains would be removed as directed by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.