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Govt plans $7.72 billion for 14 flood-hit sectors

ISLAMABAD: The National Oversight Disaster Management Council has (NODMC) worked out reconstruction plan needs of $7.724 bil-lion for 14 identified sectors in the flood-hit areas, according to an official document of the Planning Commission on Tuesday.

This multibillion reconstruction needs would be financed by do-nors and the government of Pakistan, respectively through cash transfer, reconstruction and repair needs, the document revealed.

The perspective of the reconstruction plan include $6.4 billion un-der the head of needs (replacement), while resources of $7.2 bil-lion would be arranged by donors (Asian Development Bank, World Bank and IDB) of $3.4 billion and government diversions of $3.8 billion, according to a presentation on “Flood 2010: Damage and needs assessment and reconstruction plan made available to The News.

Out of this $7.2 billion, $2.2 billion would be transferred under the head of cash, $3.5 billion for reconstruction purposes and $1.5 bil-lion for repair purposes.

The Planning Commission in its summary has estimated flood damages at $10.032 billion. The details of these damages include $250 million for irrigation, $1.007 billion for housing, $5.044 billion for agriculture, $1.726 billion for transport and communication, $334 million for energy, $282 million for private sector, $275 million for education, $18 million for health, $43 million for water and sanitation, $76 million for governance and $978 million for others.

Against the damages of $10.032 billion, the document revealed that the reconstruction needs include $544 million for irrigation, $2.18 billion for housing, $918 million for agriculture, $2.14 billion for transport and communication, $131 million for energy, $64 million for livelihood support, $54 million for private sector, $444 million for education, $36 million for health, $83 million for water and sanitation, $102 million for governance, $750 million for fi-nancial, $237 million for environment and $40 million for damage risk management.

The government has disbursed Rs5.099 billion in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh with a disbursement of Rs2.95 bil-lion to Punjab, Rs2.03 billion to Sindh and Rs115 million to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the document said.

The government has so far issued 594k Watan cards with the cash transfer of 20k per household amounting Rs6.5 billion disbursed, while an additional Rs80k for damaged homes will be disbursed. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has prepared 444 schemes, costing $1.8 billion for FERP.

Whereas the provincial damages were estimated at Rs277.89 bil-lion in Punjab, Rs351.87 billion in Sindh, Rs105.63 billion in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Rs63.63 billion in Balochistan, Rs7.70 billion in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Rs6.41 billion in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Rs6.25 billion in Gilgit-Baltistan, it said.

Major damages were reported at 1.61 million housing units, two million hectares crops, substantial stock of food, seed, fodders, tube-wells, watercourses (30K) and fish farm, 12 percent roads, 16 percent railways and 80 percent district and municipal roads, 9,053 educational institutions, 496 basic health units, one district headquarter and six tehsil headquarters and 3K schemes of water and sanitation, the document revealed.