Balochistan Caretaker Chief Minister Mir Ali Mar-dan Khan Domki on Wednesday stressed to ensure the implementation of the rehabilitation grant an-nounced by the federal government for the flood-affected districts of Balochistan and the World Bank project without further delay.
Chief Minister and senior officials of Balochistan government participated in the meeting of the Fed-eral Steering Committee held in Islamabad and co-chaired by the caretaker Federal Minister for Plan-ning Development and Special Initiatives, Muham-mad Sami Saeed regarding the implementation of development projects being executed in the flood-affected areas through video link. In the meeting, the proposal to increase the compensation amount for fully and partially affected houses in the flood-affected districts was supported by the participants on the condition of not reducing the number of vic-tims.
While explaining the position of Balochistan regard-ing the projects proposed under the Cast Breakup of Umbrella PC-1, Co-Chair Caretaker Chief Minister of Balochistan Mir Ali Mardan Khan Domki said that almost every district of the province was af-fected by the worst flood of 2022 and the communi-cation system including health and education insti-tutions were destroyed. Ali Mardan Domki said that the federal government announced a relief package of Rs10 billion last year for the relief and rehabilita-tion of flood-affected people, but the announced grant has yet not been released.
He added that the communication system, health and educational institutions were badly affected, and over 50 bridges were completely and partially col-lapsed due to heavy rains and devastating floods in the province.
