Hundreds of Bara families need assistance to rebuild houses
residents of Nangrosa area in upper Bara rebuild their houses on a self-help basis due to a delay in official damage assessment survey. — Dawn KHYBER: Over 300 families of Surankhel sub-tribe of Sipah in Nangrosa village of Upper Bara area here desperately need financial assistance to rebuild their houses as they are still awaiting survey of their damaged houses despite returning to their houses…
The Nangrosa area in upper Bara, Pakistan, is facing a critical situation as hundreds of families, particularly the Surankhel sub-tribe of Sipah, urgently need assistance to rebuild their houses. Despite returning to their homes in 2022, residents are still waiting for the official damage assessment survey, which is essential for accessing financial aid to rebuild their damaged houses.
The delay in the survey has led some families to start rebuilding on a self-help basis in anticipation of the harsh winter season. The residents express frustration with the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and the Khyber district administration for their lack of response to repeated appeals for financial assistance.
Haji Bawar Khan, a local resident, highlights that the majority of the affected families were forced to migrate to Afghanistan in 2012 and 2013 due to the lack of road access, and their non-registration as internally displaced persons upon returning to Pakistan has deprived them of the official assistance they are entitled to. The community, which relied on farming and livestock for their livelihoods, now faces the loss of their irrigation channels and livestock due to displacement, and they urgently require the repair of damaged irrigation systems, restoration of drinking water supply, and a prompt survey of damaged houses to rebuild their homes before the winter.
Brief written by urgent.news from Dawn - Pakistan's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
