Govt to increase assistance from Rs28b to Rs70b for flood victim families
\nISLAMABAD
\nThe government has decided to increase the net amount of flood relief assistance program for flood-affected families to 70 billion rupees from initial assessment of 28 billion rupees.
\nThis was announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while chairing a meeting of federal cabinet in Islamabad on Tuesday.
\nHe said the increase has been made keeping in view the gravity of the situation due to floods.
\nThe Prime Minister said a separate grant of 15 billion rupees has also been made for Sindh, 10 billion rupees each for Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and three billion rupees for the flood affected people of Gilgit-Baltistan.
\nThe Prime Minister said the relief assistance amount is being distributed through Benazir Income Support Program which has disbursed about 20 billion rupees so far.
\nHe said one million rupees is being given to the family of each deceased person in the floods.
\nShehbaz Sharif said friendly countries are contributing generously for relief of the flood victims due to increase in awareness at international level regarding the disastrous situation of floods.
\nHe said relief assistance from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, the United Arab Emirates, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Jordon, the United States and others continues while the United Kingdom has increased its initial assistance from 1.5 million to 15 million pounds.
\nThe Prime Minister lauded the joint efforts of all Ministries, federal and provincial governments and institutions engaged in flood relief activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Govt to increase assistance from Rs28b to Rs70b for flood victim families ISLAMABAD The government has decided to increase the net amount of flood relief assistance program for flood-affected families to 70 billion rupees from initial assessment of 28 billion rupees. This was announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while chairing a meeting of federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n