PESHAWAR: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has verified 49,857 of 85,065 displaced families of North Waziristan Agency, the record of which was sent to it by the Fata Disaster Management Authority.
This was stated by FDMA director general Abid Majeed at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on Sunday. He said that the registration process was stopped on July 15 and till that time some 49,857 families of 85,065 had been verified by Nadra. However, he said that the total number of displaced families manually registered at various registration points was 92,702.
Of the verified families, record of 49,736 families had been sent to Zong while payment drawn by displaced families as reported by Zong was 15,031.
Mr Majeed said that the internally displaced persons (IDPs) had been registered in two phases at three points, including Saidgai checkpost FR Bannu, Peshawar and Kurram Agency. The cash grant disbursed through Zong (Pak-China Mobile) from July 8, 2014 to July 20 was Rs405.4 million.
