Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday assured the National Assembly that reconstruction in the flood-hit areas of the country would be completed soon. Responding to concerns raised by Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao during the Question Hour over delay in the reconstruction process in eth flood-hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilani said special attention was being paid to reconstruction and rehabilitation of educational institutions and hospitals in the affected areas, adding that construction of educational institutional in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the government’s top priority. Mentioning the Damage Need Assessment by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, the prime minister said the 2010 floods had inflicted a colossal loss to the country. “The United Nations had described floods in Pakistan as more disastrous than tsunami,” the premier said.
The prime minister said projects were underway in health, education, communication and irrigation sectors as well as for infrastructure development. “The provincial governments have prepared reconstruction projects and the funds were released to them for their execution. The provinces are implementing the projects which are also being monitored,” he said. Earlier on a supplementary question, Sherpao said the situation in most parts of the province was not satisfactory as far as reconstruction projects were concerned. He quoted the example of Swat as well as Charsada, claiming that no money was being spent and most of the roads and bridges still needed repair and reconstruction.
