Lahore: Punjab Information Minister Uzma Bukhari has said that a Chief Minister’s relief card will be made to help flood victims so that no one has to stand in line. The Benazir Income Support Program was made under a law. Politics is not good for everything.
While holding a press conference at DGPR, she said that the Chief Minister of Punjab and his team are always seen serving the people during floods. You have never seen anything like this before. There must be an area of Punjab where floods have occurred and the Chief Minister of Punjab has not visited. The Chief Minister and his team worked like laborers during the floods. Our PDMA officer Abdul Rehman had a heart attack and died. Pattoki AC Farhan Ahmed has also died.
She said that the Chief Minister of Punjab herself goes and talks to the people. I have not seen any Chief Minister who is so emotional. He listens to the people’s grief by sitting on the ground. You are seeing a new style of governance in Punjab, but our critics have nothing but slander.
Uzma Bukhari said that 7,794 villages of Punjab were affected, 2.6 million people were affected, 2.1 million cattle were affected, the flood came around August 25 and 26 and the flood is still ongoing. Initial surveys have been conducted, 59.69 million people were affected by the inside flood, 1.6 million people were affected by the outside flood, three rivers hit different districts of Punjab, about 27 cities were affected, 2,213 teams are working in the field.
The provincial information minister said that farmers have suffered losses, 20,000 per acre will be given to the farmer, 1 million rupees will be given to the farmer whose entire house collapsed and 5 million rupees will be given to the farmer whose house was damaged, while 5 million rupees will be given for the loss of cows and buffaloes, all this is the Punjab government’s own money, no help was sought from anyone.
He said that no development work is stopping anywhere in the entire Punjab, 80,000 houses are under construction in Apni Rathi Apni Ghar, by December its number will reach one lakh, on the other hand flood politics is also being done, the federal government and NDMA were with us throughout the flood phase, if the federation wants to help, they will be kind.
The Punjab Information Minister said that Bilawal Bhutto praised the Chief Minister of Punjab, Chairman Senate Yousaf Raza Gilani saw the operation in South Punjab from his side, many things can also come from us that the last time there was a flood, why didn’t you prepare?
He said that the Chief Minister’s relief card will be made so that no one has to stand in line, the Benazir Income Support Program was made under a law, politics is not good for everything, these buses have come to serve the people of Punjab, my team found out that the appeal made by the prisoner of Adiala Jail has been made one hundred and thirty-two times, they say that I live alone, whoever lives in jail lives alone.
He said that if Punjab has to build dams to save its water, then they must be built, there is no on and off button for smog, our environment team is implementing SOPs, crops are being burned in Indian Punjab, if the index deteriorates there, then our index also deteriorates.
Uzma Bukhari said that the whole of Pakistan needs to learn wisdom from those who have turned Sindh into an archeology, they say that if the rain decreases, we will come out, we do not wait for the rain to decrease.