TANK:The disbursement process of compensation amount for the flood-affected people in the district was underway as a total of Rs 376.32 million distributed among 1491 flood-affected people in the district.
According to the district administration, concrete efforts are being made to rehabilitate the damaged infrastructures at flood-affected areas and ensure that flood victims are compensated in an expeditious and transparent manner.
As part of such efforts, Assistant Commissioner Tank Aminullah Khan on Thursday paid a visit to the Bank of Khyber branch to review arrangements and oversee the disbursement of compensation amounts to the flood affectees.
He also met with flood-affected people and inquired about various matters pertaining to compensation amounts.
The AC was briefed about the entire process and informed that Bank of Khyber had released Rs 229.6 million to 574 flood-affected families whose houses were damaged completely.
While for the 917 people of partially damaged houses had been paid a total of Rs 146.72 million so far.
The Bank officials said that the process of payment to the remaining eligible flood-hit families was underway.
On this occasion, Aminullah Khan directed the bank officials to ensure timely payments of relief funds to help the victims as soon as possible and added that the provincial government and the district administration had taken effective measures to carry out the task in a transparent and peaceful manner.