Overview
- The provincial package includes Rs1,000,000 for fully destroyed homes, Rs500,000 for partial damage, Rs1,000,000 to families of the deceased, and Rs500,000 for the severely injured.
- Punjab’s finance minister says funds are available, survey teams are active, and assistance will be disbursed via ATM cards with a goal to compensate losses within one month.
- PDMA, the Irrigation Department, Rescue 1122 and the armed forces conducted rescues and ran relief camps supplying food, water, tents and, for the first time, milk packs for children.
- Irrigation crews report fast closure of breaches and ongoing embankment strengthening under continuous monitoring, while officials outline longer-term measures including small dams, underground storage and clearing river channels.
- Officials cite simultaneous impact across 28 districts; in Shujabad flooding exceeded 20 days, damaging 39,546 acres and affecting about 50,000 people, as a political estimate places province-wide losses above Rs88 billion with 4.755 million directly affected.