calamities. He said a lack of coordination between the federal and provincial governments was observed in the post-quake situation. He urged early restoration of health and education institutions.
The opposition leader complained that the Mufti Mehmood Public School and College, an institution spread over 100 kanals of land, was running without a permanent principal. It, he said, belied the government claim about education emergency.
Sahibzada Sanaullah of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in his maiden speech in the assembly after taking oath last month also complained of nepotism in the survey. He accused the local administration of ignoring the deserving people.
The legislator said the PDMA provided only 200 tents while 4,000 houses were damaged in his constituency.In Upper Dir, he added, 12,643 houses were damaged but the PDMA provided only 3,400 tents, he said.
Sahibzada Sanaullah complained that the local administration accepted only 200 affectees claims out of 843 and rejected the remaining because of lack of pictures of the damaged house.
The lawmaker also complained that 11 seriously injured persons from his constituency who were shifted to Peshawar were not properly treated for three days, who were admitted by the hospital administrator whom he met. He warned of protest if the grievances of affectees were not removed.
Salim Khan of the PPP demanded resurvey and said the actual number of damaged houses was very high. He claimed 400 houses were fully damaged and 16,000 partially in Chitral. He also called for opening Rescue 1122 service in the district and said the PDMA should have a helicopter for rescue operation.
Abdul Muneem from Shangla supported the demand for increase of the compensation amount, but said the critics should know that the last government paid Rs175,000 for fully damaged houses and that too in installments.
Sardar Aurangzeb Nalotha of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz appreciated the coordination between federal and provincial governments. He said both the set ups did not do point scoring over the disaster.
Responding to the points raised by the opposition members, Senior Minister Inayatullah said the response to the earthquake was exemplary as the schools and other buildings destroyed in the 2005 quake were yet to be constructed.
He said the damage assessment process had been completed in one week and compensation paid within a month. He said the compensation payment process would end on the 26th of this month.
Rejecting complaints about the shortcomings in the survey, the minister said the army, district administration and elected representatives had conducted the survey.
The debate was going on when the speaker adjourned the session for Friday.