JHANG: Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has ordered sugar mills to pay outstanding dues to sugarcane growers within 48 hours. He issued the orders on the demand of flood-affected people during his visit to Kot Khaira, Chund and Wijhlana. He said the Punjab government would bear all losses to motors and tube-wells by floodwater in affected areas. He said PM Nawaz Sharif would not stop helping affectees till the last affectee was settled.
DCO Raja Khurram Shahzad Omer briefed him about the flood situation, losses and relief activities. The chief minister was told that a breach in an embankment near Wijhland had inundated many localities but the city remaind safe.
The chief minister said all losses would be compensated and the government would reconstruct houses demolished by flood. "For every casuality in floods, the government will pay Rs 1.6m to the family and every affected family would get Rs25,000 before Eid," he added.
He directed the administration to speed up the relief operation in all flood-hit ateas.
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