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This was revealed in a survey conducted by this correspondent during visits to the relief camps and places such as roadside or river dykes where the IDPs are staying.
Some of them are seen begging in bazaars and streets doubting availability of food for their children.
Unfair distribution of relief goods has hit hard flood affected people who are living at makeshifts huts along LS bund and stranded in villages and relief camps in school buildings.
At KG school Dadu, a woman Jadul said that for the last 16 days, relief goods were not provided to her. She said that she was begging from the city to feed her children.
Another woman Saran Solangi said that the administration was not providing them proper meal.She said that camp at KG school had been divided into three parts where relief goods were being provided to two parts of the camp while the third one was being neglected.
Former federal minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi claimed that 10,000 families were facing starvation and the district administration was not providing hem relief goods as yet. He said that a huge amount was being misused through Utility Stores Corporation. He alleged that district administration had been asked to distribute relief goods among selected people.
Sindh education minister, Pir Mazharul Haq told journalists that in the second phase due to shortage of relief bags 30,455 bags were not distributed among flood survivors. He said that it was being ensured that every survivor gets relief. He said that soon relief goods would be distributed among the remaining people at the camps. He said that after distributing relief goods at officially notified camps, goods would be distributed among people staying at LS bund and then in villages in the kutcha area from where people had refused to shift.
He said that temporary schools would be set up outside relief camps from Tuesday. He said that evening shifts would be held at private schools. He said that action would be taken against head masters where flood affected people were using school furniture for cooking purpose.—Qurban Ali Khushik
