The NWFP Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Sardar Muhammad Idrees has directed the district administration of Abbottabad to arrange regular paid teachers and doctors at the tentage village established by the NWFP government at Banda Sahib Khan near Havelian in Abbottabad District.
He also asked the concerned departments to accelerate the pace of work on installation of more tents as well as the ongoing sanitation, water supply and electrification schemes initiated by the provincial government on emergency basis to facilitate the earthquake victims.
The provincial minister issued these directives during his visit to the temporary village wherein he inspected the ongoing construction work as well as other arrangements and also distributed toys and other gifts among the children of the inmates and a tent school, being run in collaboration with "Lok Sudhar" - a Non-Government Organisation.
Sardar Idrees announced that the provincial government would serve free of cost meals to the victims housed at the village and those being treated at different government hospitals of the district. Sui Gas facility will also be extended to the village very soon, he added.
It is pertinent to note that the NWFP government has set up this tentage village on 1134 kanals of land, situated near Havelian - some 13 Kilometre short of Abbottabad, within a very short span of time and has started to house the earthquake victims coming from different parts of earthquake-hit areas of NWFP and Azad Kashmir as well.
Certain Non Government relief and welfare organisations like Rotary Club, Lions Club, "Lok Sudhar", "Kawish" and a Peshawar based foreign relief agency "Shelter Now" are also contributing to relief and rehabilitation works in the tentage village.
So far 219 individuals of 54 displaced families arrived here in the past two days while influx of many others was continue, said Aurangzeb Abbasi, EDO of the district Community Development Department while briefing the Local Government Minister at the Registration Office set up by his department in the village.
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