WB, ADB prepare report about flood affected areas: NDMA
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—The chairman NDMA, (National Disaster Management Authority) Lt.Gen (Retd) Farooq Ahmad Khan has announced that World Bank and Asian Development Bank have prepared a comprehensive report about flood affected areas of Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference at the PM Secretariat on Friday, he said that total losses would be estimated, while it has been estimated that 420 persons died, 109 were missing, 6450 villages were destroyed, 75,000 homes suffered, while 45% persons were displaced as homeless.
He refuted that there was any danger of spread of infectious diseases due to the recent floods and said that all roads and highways were intact, assuring that illegally operating NGOs would not be provided any relevant details, while action would be taken against them by relevant authorities.
He disclosed that only 3 NGOs of UN and International level were working in Sindh, while the others had been barred form operations because of their failure to come up to the standards.
He said that there was no information available about recent donations to the presidential funds, and claimed that the proposed plan of Mirani Dam was free of any errors. The Dam was built to sustain a water storage capacity of 500,000 cusecs, but this time it was forced to contain 800,000 cusecs, after a record 172 mm rain after 90 years.
He informed that medical camps were established in 15 districts, in which 2,71,000 patients were checked, and only 72 villages have been re-supplied with electricity.
He also assured that no further destructive rains as such are expected until further one week, and also announced the formation of a communication network for informing about climatic conditions.