The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has asked the provincial government to provide at least 5,000 tents immediately as the situation at the relief camps for the displaced people in the metropolis is getting from bad to worse, it is learnt by The News on Wednesday.
The Administrator/DCO of Karachi, Fazlur Rehman, in his letter to the chief secretary of Sindh, said that the chief minister of Sindh had agreed at a meeting at the CM House on 14th August to provide relief in the shape of tents and cash, but not a single penny had been provided thus far.
The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), however, has provided 1,500 tents.
The Karachi DCO had also drawn attention of the provincial government to the security situation at the IDPs’ camps.
Saying that a large number of the IDPs had arrived at Gadap, Bin Qasim Town and Hawkes Bay camps, he apprehended that some unknown elements and political activists were “likely to create an untoward situation” there which might trigger a serious law and order situation.
The DCO asked the provincial government to direct the IGP and the commander of Rangers to provide full security at the camps and to the staff working there.
Meanwhile, a provincial government spokesman said that 454,000 flood victims were being looked after at 983 government relief camps.
The victims were being provided food, medical cover and other necessary facilities.
Mobile units were also providing medical and other facilities to the people in different parts of the province.
DISCIPLINE AT RELIEF CAMPS: The General-Secretary of Pakistan People’s Party (Sindh), Taj Haider, has emphasized the need for maintaining a high level of discipline at all the relief camps for flood victims.
In a statement, he said that the reports that men push women and children aside in a scramble for food, the weak and the sick went hungry while the strong took much more than their needs, and that the jostling for food resulting in its going waste and the police having to step in to control the situation were “very disappointing and disturbing”.
Haider asked the administration and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) volunteers working at the camps to ensure that women and children were served first and that the weak and the sick were attended to.
He asked the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) volunteers to make sure that everyone in the camp got food.
Taj Haider said that the real task before the government would be to rehabilitate the victims after the flood had passed.
“This is a government of the people, and whatever resources are available are being used in the service of the people,” the PPP leader further said.
