The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) would soon dispatch relief goods worth over Rs 5.6678 million for the victims in Balochistan. Sources in the city government told Business Recorder here on Monday that relief goods were likely to be dispatched on Tuesday (today) to Balochistan after the approval of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal.
The cyclone coupled with torrential monsoon rains has lashed the coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan leaving many people homeless, damaged basic infrastructure and paralysed normal life. CDGK had used its relief fund to arrange the relief goods, which, sources said, include mostly food items like Atta (flour), sugar, edible oil, pulses, rice, tea, milk, water and other essential commodities.
The relief goods, sources said, would include 15,000 bags (10 kilogram each) of atta worth Rs 2.10 million, sugar weighing 30,000 kilogram worth Rs 0.765 million and 11,200 kilogram edible oil with a cost of Rs 0.8736 million.
In addition to this the city government would send 30,000 kilogram rice worth Rs 0.660 million, 20, 000 kilogram pulses (daal) valued at Rs 0.650 million and tea weighing 2,400 kilogram worth of Rs 0.6192 million, sources said. They said that the donation would also include water, quantity of which could not be known, milk and some other basic items.
Meanwhile, Executive District Officer (EDO) Enterprise & Investment Promotion, Syed Hassan Naqvi had donated relief goods worth more than 100,000 to the relief camp established by EDO Revenue for the rain victims in Karachi.
The EDO had collected the amount from various associations of wholesalers and retailers across the metropolis. The relief aid included 600 bags (5 kilogram each) of atta, 100 bags (2 kilogram each) of sugar and 55 packets containing different essential food items.
Balochistan, where floods washed away a large number of people and scores of arteries and highways, including the Makran Coastal Highway, is in a dire need for humanitarian aid.
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