Erra using delaying tactics for New Balakot city

MANSEHRA: An 11-member committee constituted by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to look after the affairs of New Balakot City housing project has threatened to quit if plots were not allotted to over 400 affected families of red zone within a week. “The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) has been delaying issuing allotment letters to survivors families since long and if this process is not started within a week, we would be left with no other option but to quit this committee,” Mohammad Safdar Awan, one of the members of committee, told reporters in Balakot on Friday.

He said the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority had been giving schedule of allotting plots to New Balakot City housing projects since long but survivor families of red zone Balakot were still without plots. Awan said both Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federal governments should fulfill their commitments announced with survivors and allot them plots in city being developed for them.