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Rural Housing: The earthquake 2005 caused severe damage to rural and urban housing, specifically, the rural housing where 462,546 houses were completely damaged and 101,091 were partially damaged. To bring back normalcy ERRA Pakistan adopted owner driven Rural Housing Program with assisted & inspected construction. The program being ERRA’s flagship program at the moment is near successful completion where by end of June 92% of the destroyed houses will be reconstructed as per ERRA guidelines, leaving over 700,000 trained human resource for seismically safe reconstruction.

Urban Housing: While Rs 2.9 Billion have been disbursed for reconstruction of urban housing, four totally destroyed major cities are being reconstructed i.e., Bagh, Rawalakot and Muzaffarabad (AJ&K) and Balakot (NWFP). A rehabilitation project worth Rs 100 million has been launched for Old Balakot City while master plans for four cities have been finalized. Chinese teams are on ground for survey of the sites.

Hamed Yaqoob Sheikh
Director General

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