An international NGO has opened one of the four planned construction trades centres in quake-hit area in Bissian Mansehra to facilitate reconstruction activities, a press release said on Thursday.
According to the press release, there were 807,605 housing units in the 12 earthquake affected districts of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP as per 1998 Housing Census.
It is estimated that 50 per cent of this housing stock had collapsed and another 20 per cent had been badly damaged. This means that over 500,000 housing units would have to be rebuilt or repaired in a manner that could withstand future earthquakes, the release added.
Keeping this need in view, the CWS-P/A and Dosti Welfare Organisation are working together to establish four "Constructions Trades Training Centers" in earthquake affected areas of NWFP. These Centres provide basic training in four construction trades including Masonry, Electricity, Plumbing and Carpentry to the young men who belonged to the disaster struck areas, it further said.
The first training centre has been established at Mansehra and another centre at Bissian, is ready to start its services.
Inauguration ceremony of the Bissian training centre was held on Wednesday (March 15) at 2:30 pm. The venue of the ceremony was Sharah-e-Kaghan Shohal Chowk Bissian.-PR
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