Federal Govt. Collaborating with all Provinces on Administrative Issues: Ahsan Iqbal

Minister for Planning and Development Professor Ahsan Iqbal chaired a meeting with cross-sectional experts On Nutrition to formulate a response in the wake of recent calamitous floods.

Nearly a hundred Participants belonging to NGOs, INGOs, Academia, Donor agencies, and other stakeholders attended the meeting to play a participatory role in the consultation process.

Mr. Ahsan Iqbal stated that the scale of destruction that was caused by these floods was unprecedented that was not our making but resultant of climate change due to the emission of greenhouse gases in the developed world.

Mr. Ahsan Iqbal underscored that the Federal Government has been administratively collaborating with the provincial governments irrespective of any political discrimination adding that every citizen has to partake in his role in this national cause.

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The Minister remarked that the most backward regions in the country are worst hit by the recent floods that left a big challenge for us. He added that enormous resources are required to rebuild and restructure these backward districts and the volume of expenditure to be incurred will cross the earlier estimate of 40 billion Rupees for the 20 most backward districts. Government is committed with full resolve to rebuilding these areas in order to address the sense of alienation among the people in these regions.

The Minister while urging the participants to leave at-least three possible actionable interventions in relevance to rebuilding the flood-damaged Pakistan said that the Government will take full benefit of these interventions. A well coherent plan can only be devised by taking all the stakeholders on board, maintained the Minister.

Moreover, participants noted that keeping in view the widespread damage to the crops and fields in the flood-hit areas, there is a crucial need to provide seeds to revive the growth of crops while observing that to tame the impending food security crisis vast amount of funds are required for growing the staple food crops. Ministry of National Food Security should take the forefront role in the implementation of the plan by taking on board NDMA and PDMA’s