(AKI/DAWN) - Two years after the killer earthquake struck Pakistani-administered Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), most of the people who were left homeless, still remain without any shelter.| On the eve of the second anniversary of the quake, there were many complaints about the inefficiencies and corruption in the affected areas mainly in the distribution of compensation to the survivors. |
Besides the difficulties the families faced in rebuilding their homes, there have also been problems with the rebuidling of the region’s two most devastated towns – Muzaffarabad, the capital, Pakistani Kashmir, and Balakot in the NWFP. The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) says the reconstruction of only about 92,000 houses have been completed while 250,000 are still in various stages of completion. This means that most of the quake survivors will face their third winter without proper homes, though the population seems to be generally satisfied with other facilities, such as health, education and supplies from non-governmental organisations.