Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

expenditure of Rs.880 million during 2008-10, only Rs.77.328
million were spent. The current year’s PSDP allocation was Rs.740
million against which Rs.67 million were utilized in Provinces, till
December 2010. The Fourth Medium-term program was still on the
drawing board but it will need careful review, in the light of the 2010
Flood experience. On 11th February, 2011, the Planning
Commission confirmed an estimated outlay of Rs.4,614 millions
through the PSDP including Rs.3.669 million earmarked for FFC as
its Monitoring, Evaluation and Supervision charges, a duty that the
FFC did not clarify though its former Chairman admitted before the
Punjab Judicial Commission about its capacity limitation.
b. Lt. General (R) Nadeem Ahmed, the Chairman, NDMA since 2007,
briefed the Commission in the context of formulations 1, 2 and 12
in Para 1 supra about the organization’s preparatory work for
management of potential disasters. His submissions, further
supplemented by written material tendered on 18 th and 27 th January
2011, being copies of official communications, presented the
holistic view of the enormity of 2010 flood operations and how
these were coordinated, with a host of local and international
organizations and bilateral donors. It was given out that with
graduation of ‘Relief and Early Recovery Phase’ by end January
2011, work on rehabilitation was being pursued. A copy of draft
National Flood Reconstruction Plan 2010, datelined December
2010, Planning Commission of Pakistan, that contains ‘Damages
and Needs Assessment’ (DNA) Report formulated for the ADB and
World Bank after consultations with concerned Federal Ministries,
Organizations and Provinces/Territorial administrations was
presented. The draft Plan confirmed an agreed quantum of Rs.855
billion=US$ 10.05 billion as flood damages in public and private
sectors; it gives organization/sector/areawise preview of the
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