Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has refused to inaugurate the ‘digital dashboard’ developed to ensure transparency in flood relief assistance and its distribution, asking the authorities concerned to add more features to it. It is not a board that is required,” Express News quoted the premier as saying during a briefing on flood relief efforts in Islamabad on Monday. The prime minister, in a briefing on the dashboard being developed to provide real-time information about flood relief support and its usage, instructed the officials to add more features like the weather alert and others to make it a “world-class” platform containing all relevant information. Premier Shehbaz said the flood relief dashboard must contain all the relevant information about every item where the relief items like quilts and baby food were sent and where they came from. He said the government would provide all required support for the development of the dashboard which should not be a makeshift arrangement but rather a facility usable even for decades.

Source: The Express Tribune October 04, 2022 03:20 UTC