The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has received another Rs50 million from the Sindh Relief Commissioner for providing facilities to the internally displaced persons (IDPs), Executive District Officer (EDO) Revenue CDGK Roshan Ali Shaikh informed The News on Monday.
He said that earlier the CDGK was given Rs34 million to this effect and now the total amount stands at Rs84 million. “Currently the city government is hosting around 48,000 flood affected persons at its 41 relief camps. Almost half of the relief camps have been established at government schools,” he said.
He said that 28,000 flood affectees were being provided basic facilities by the city government itself while the remaining 20,000 affectees were adopted by different welfare organisations. “These welfare organisations are taking care of the food supply and other items that are needed by the flood victims. Though the number of affectees is high but CDGK is managing issues in this regard quite comfortably,” he said.
The city government is planning to shift the flood victims to larger relief camps so that the education process can begin at these schools, he added. He said that two tent cites have already been established at Razaqabad and Hawkesbay by the CDGK and each consists of 450 tents. “Each of these tent cities is accommodating around 2500 IDPs. Another tent city would also be established at Hawkesbay,” he added.
When asked about the problems being faced by CDGK, he said that earlier it had faced problems regarding the provision of tents as they were supplied to upcountry for flood victims there. However, he said, CDGK has solved this problem with its own resources and decided to keep the IDPs in school buildings.
