Government has initiated skill training programme for quake victims

Posted by Kashif Aziz
January 4, 2006

Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that a comprehensive programme has been initiated in the earthquake-affected areas for the training of local people in various construction-related skills to enable them to build their houses and earn respectable livelihood.

Talking to a delegation of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) led by its president Mian Shafqat Ali at Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Tuesday, Elahi said that the process of identifying affected families for the Punjab government’s Support a Family programme was being undertaken expeditiously. He said that the loss of lives due to the earthquake was much more than initial estimates but the people had displayed commendable spirit of unity and solidarity at this critical juncture.

The chief minister said that the Punjab government had so far sent relief assistance of more than Rs 2.5 billion to the affected areas and this process was continuing. He said that the Support a Family programme for the relief and rehabilitation of earthquake survivors had been well received at every level and industrialists and people of all walks of life were enthusiastically participating in this programme.

Disaster Relief Management Society Chief Executive Hafeez Akhtar Randhawa said that mutual contact between the donors and affected families was being ensured under the Support a Family programme.

LCCI President Mian Shafqat Ali presented a cheque of Rs 7.2 million for the relief and rehabilitation of the calamity-stricken people to the chief minister. The president of the Institute of Engineering Pakistan Cooperative Housing Society and Pakistan Engineering Congress Vice President Chaudhry Rasheed Khan also presented a cheque of Rs one million for the rehabilitation of the earthquake victims.

Source: Daily Times

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