PESHAWAR
The provincial government after a lengthy deliberation has decided to launch the survey of damaged houses in flood-hit districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Thursday (today), said a press release.
The decision was taken here on Wednesday in the meeting of the Technical Committee of Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund.
Senator Dr Sania Nishtar, Chief Secretary KP Dr Shahzad Khan Bangash, ACS Shahab Ali Shah, Secretary Relief, DG PDMA and representatives of Bank of Khyber attended the meeting.
The committee has been constituted to devise a mechanism to ensure efficient management and utilization of flood relief funds.
Director PMRU while briefing the committee said that training has been imparted to field staff regarding mobile Application use developed for the survey. The field teams will go door to door and collect data electronically through mobile application.
To ensure fast track and transparent compensation, Director PMRU explained that data collected via mobile app would be approved by a claim assessment committee, chaired by deputy commissioners of concerned districts and payment to affected people will be made through the Bank of Khyber.
CS-KP directed that in order to meet shortage of field staff in the districts where flood has inflicted huge losses, relevant staff of adjoining districts should be deployed so that assessment can be completed in the shortest possible time.
It is pertinent to mention here that the KP government has launched a mobile application to conduct the survey of houses damaged during the recent floods in different areas. The application has been developed to ensure transparency in relief compensation.
The survey has been developed by the provincial Information Technology Board for which master training is being imparted to concerned government officials.
According to a meeting, chaired by CS-KP Dr Shahzad Bangash on Tuesday, the compensation of affected families who have lost their houses will be paid through the Bank of Khyber.
The preliminary damage assessments carried out by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) shared that a total of 91.456 houses have been damaged in flood-hit districts of KP.
Flood damages 91,458 houses in KP: PDMA
A coordination meeting of core committee of Humanitarian Organizations representatives related to relief activities and officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Disaster Management Authority in flood-affected areas was held here on Wednesday and was informed the forum that 91,458 houses were damaged in flood throughout the province since June 15.
The meeting was presided over by Director Rehabilitation PDMA Sajid Imran, representative from UNICEF, UNOCHA, WFP, SRSP, Islamic Relief and other organizations attended the meeting.
The participants of the meeting were briefed about the damages and relief activities undertaken by PDMA KP in the flood-affected region across the province.
Director Rehabilitation PDMA informed the forum that so far the total numbers of house damages are 91,458 throughout the province since June 15. 37,523 houses were completely damaged while 53,936 houses were partially damaged.
PDMA, District Administration and other relevant departments evacuated 406,538 people to safe places before the floods while 69,775 people were rescued through rescue operations in different districts. Cooked food provided to 861,580 people and 265,435 people have been provided dry food.
According to Director General PDMA KP Sharif Hussain, family tents were provided to house 47,192 individuals, tarpaulin sheets to benefit 20,341 individuals apart from it 147,226 people provided NFIs, 18,843 blankets,26,754 mattresses 11,838 kitchen sets, 12,463 hygiene kits, 12,437 water containers, 9,919 plastic mats, 1,240 life-saving jackets, and 10,998 mosquito nets,971 searchlights and 9,805 pillows have been distributed.
PDMA has already released Rs. 1752 million to the District Administrations since July to deal with the emergency situation. As per policy, the fund can be utilized for compensation of the victims and relief activities.
On the direction of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan all the concerned District organizations and relevant institutions are working day and night for the rehabilitation of flood victims and relief activities for flood victims are also ongoing. The process of providing three meals a day, medical treatment and other necessary facilities to the flood victims is still ongoing with the support of Donor Organizations.
The forum was informed that the concerned District Administration and partner organizations are conducting assessments (RNA) of the affected areas and relief activities will be carried out accordingly. Provincial Govt developed an APP for reporting of these assessments and using all resources for the rehabilitation of the flood victims and that the rehabilitation of the flood victims is the first priority of the KP government, the cooperation of philanthropists and the United Nations is indispensable for the complete rehabilitation of the flood victims.
WFP will distribute ration to 32 thousand families in flood affected districts. The assessments for selection of deserving families are in process through the implementing partners and will be shared with PDMA KP soon.
