Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

7 Partially damaged Kacha 5,000
8 Shop Pucca 10,000
9 Shop Pucca Partially 5,000
10
Damaged
Loss of Milched Cattle; 10,000: and
and Sheep/ Goat
3,000
11 Poultry Birds 30/Bird
12 Seeds/ Fertilizer per acre 2, 400
Out of that, a lumpsum grant of Rs. 20,000/family,
equally shared by Federal and Provincial
Governments was approved in the first phase, and
Rs.10.132 billion had been disbursed to 566,468
Watan Card holders for payments by designated
banks, after its electronic verification from national
data-base record. The 2 nd tranche of Rs. 80,000 was
proposed to be paid on availability of loan funds.
Small farmers were allowed Rs. 3.360 billion @ Rs.
2,400/acre as one bag of urea and 50kg wheat seed,
to bring 1.4 million acres under Rabi crops, also with
50:50 Federal-Provincial contributions, on the scale
approved by ECC. Reverting to key issue of
maintenance of bunds, it was asserted that during the
last decade, Rs. 944 million had been spent for
maintenance of 1,300 miles of bunds with an average
of Rs.72,600/ mile/ year; out of that only Rs.
2,810,491 were utilized for 5-miles long Tori Bund @
Rs 56,200/ mile/year that was obviously inadequate to
ensure compliance with specified standards laid down
in the Bund Manual. The officer had verified that
recent changes in the top management positions that
persuaded the Commission to summon officers
concerned with PDMA and relief work at the time of
the disaster, to clarify context of the briefing in a
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