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Islamabad the 23rd April 2009; Lt Gen
Sajjad Akram, Deputy Chairman, ERRA,
during a monthly briefing has stated
that Earthquake Reconstruction and
Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) is now
working at in full swing for the
reconstruction and rehabilitation of
the Earthquake 2005 affected areas
located in northern parts of Pakistan
and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He
appreciated the zeal, commitment and
hard work of all members of the “Build
Back Better Team”. He specifically
appreciated and commended the progress
made and targets achieved in the Rural
Housing Reconstruction Program which
is its flag ship program. The program
is taking care of the permanent
reconstruction of 462,900 houses that
were completely destroyed during the
October 8th earthquake of 2005 in
northern parts of Pakistan. So far
388,949 houses have been completely
reconstructed as per seismic resistant
designs given by ERRA and affectees
have been provided Rs. 64.75 Billions
as the rural housing subsidy by ERRA.
This is in addition to 101,091 houses
that were partially damaged and 46,725
houses that suffered negligible damage
which were given Rs. 5 Billions and
Rs.1.1 Billions respectively by ERRA.
It is pertinent to mention that ERRA
is only disbursing Rural Housing
tranches for the houses that have been
reconstructed as per ERRA design and
are seismically resistant. This
program of ERRA will be coming to an
end in June 2009 after successful
completion of 36,000 houses that are
presently under construction in the
Earthquake affected areas.
The pace of progress in this sector
could be measured by the fact that
ERRA has distributed Rs.1626 Million,
only during the last two months |
