CHAKWAL, Jan 12: Flood relief goods worth hundreds and thousands of rupees have been rotting in Chakwal for the last four months, Dawn has learnt.

The items, including flour, ghee, sugar, tea, biscuits, mineral water, medicines, clothes, blankets and quilts, etc., were collected by different educational institutions but they have been lying in a room of Government Postgraduate College hostel.

Well placed sources said the room where the items have been kept was not locked giving hostel administration an easy access to food items.

After the natural catastrophe, Punjab Government had ordered public sector educational institutions to collect relief goods for the flood victims.

Relief camps were set up in educational institutions where teachers and students donated many relief items generously for this noble cause and the items were handed over to the Assistant Director of Colleges (ADC) Prof Liaquat Ali Kahoot.

However, ADC Prof Liaquat Ali Kahoot blamed the District Coordination Officer (DCO) Tariq Viqar Bakhshi for this situation as he had not provided goods transport.

He said they had dispatched one truck on their own but could not send second for want of rent.

He said the DCO told him that he had assigned the goods delivery task to tehsil municipal officer.

TMO Qammar Zeeshan said that nobody had ever contacted him to deliver relief goods to the flood victims.?

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