ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), Shazia Marri on Tuesday said the government has distributed Rs65.79billion out of Rs70 billion among 02.6million flood-hit families of the country.
Addressing a news conference, along with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Faisal Karim Kundi here in Islamabad, she said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had approved seventy billion rupees for flood-affected people.
Shazia Marri said that rehabilitation and reconstruction work is underway with the support of Word Bank and the United Nations. She said a donors conference in France in collaboration with French President and the UN will be held soon to support the flood-hit people in the country. She said the federal government will provide full support to farmers of Sindh and Balochistan as seeds will be provided to them.