Flood survivors: Punjab chief minister to inaugurate village next week

Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif will inaugurate next week a village constructed for flood affectees comprising 82 houses designed and constructed on modern lines with all the basic amenities in Basti Khara Niazi (Muzaffargarh). This village has been funded by different NGOs and Thal Limited, a group of companies with its jute mills based in Muzaffargarh, provided Rs 150 million for 50 houses out of total 82 while the rest was sponsored by the NGOs.
This village has been constructed by Provincial Disaster Management Authority while the sponsors monitored the whole construction process to ensure transparency and quality of work, sources from the jute mills told a group of journalists that recently visited Muzaffargarh. They said that all preparations have been made for a formal inaugural of this village wherein CM Punjab will distribute keys of these newly built houses among the affectees next week likely.
They informed that each house constructed in this village is spread over 6.5 'marla' having two rooms, kitchen, toilet, animal shed, courtyard and open space, while a dispensary, shopping area, two schools, veterinary hospital and concrete streets have been constructed in this village.
Sources from the sponsoring industries said that they were feeling happy to help the people of the area in distress. They said that most of the people affected from flood were their worker, so they extended help in their rehabilitation and designed the new village in a way that they get all the amenities including health and education near their place of living. The concept of a shopping area and building of houses and streets in a proper and planned way is also aimed at providing a good living to the masses of this area, they added. They said that their industry has also jointly sponsored construction of a school in the area providing latest education under a foundation.