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Punjab Launches Provincewide Flood Relief and Damage Survey

Authorities will mobilize more than 2,000 multi‑agency teams using a new app with a central dashboard to standardize reporting.

Overview

  • Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif approved a provincewide relief and rehabilitation push, creating district and tehsil flood relief committees and a simplified aid delivery mechanism.
  • Punjab’s chief secretary set a phased damage survey across 28 districts, starting immediately in 18 districts with a one‑month target for completion.
  • Survey teams will draw personnel from the Urban Unit, Revenue and Agriculture departments and the Pakistan Army, with directives to restore roads and other critical infrastructure and to set up relief camps.
  • Officials disclosed conflicting impact tallies, with the Revenue Department citing 27 districts and 3,775 affected villages and other estimates pointing to 28 districts and over 4,500 villages, underscoring that figures remain preliminary.
  • Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif earlier ordered a comprehensive, realistic accounting of human and financial losses nationwide and instructed federal and provincial bodies to coordinate closely to shape rehabilitation plans.