Federal Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education Samina Ghurki along with and the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Sardar Asaaf Ahmad Ali and the Chairman ERRA, Altaf Muhammad Saleem visited Muzaffarabad on October 14, 2009 to inaugurate and inspect a number of projects constructed in the 2005 earthquake affected areas of AJ&K. Among others, Additional Chief Secretary Developments Muhammad Yusuf Khan, Secretary Social Welfare Sardar Javed Ayub, Director General SERRA Dr Asif Shah and heads of various departments were also present on the occasion. Brig Javed Akhtar Warriach (Retd), DG P-I, apprised the Chief Guest and the accompanying dignitaries that Social Welfare Complex, Muzaffarabad was constructed by ERRA with the help of Government of Pakistan at a cost of Rs 23.482 million. Similarly, Benazir Bhutto Women Development Centre, Muzaffarabad has been constructed by ERRA with the cooperation of Ministry of Women Development, Government of Pakistan at a cost of 12.87 million. These facilities provide free services, such as residence, food, healthcare and education-cum-training to widows, orphans and elderly people. Later the honourable Minister inspected various departments of Social Welfare Complex and Women Development Centre and freely mixed with the female staff working in the Complex, to educate herself about its functioning and output. Before the culmination of visit, both Ms Samina Ghurki and Sardar Asaaf performed the ground breaking of Boys Degree College and visited the Combined Military Hospital and adjacent Centre for Rehabilitation of Body Organs.

Expressing their feelings after the visit, the honourable Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education Samina Ghurki, and other senior Government officials present on the occasion, appreciated the efforts ERRA is making to construct better designed and equipped infrastructure in place of the buildings destroyed by the earthquake, which, they hoped, would cater for the present as well as future needs of local population.