800 thousand Displaced citizens Returned to their Cities- Minister

DAMASCUS,(ST)_   Deputy Premier for Services and Local administration Minister Omar Ghalaounji said that  the government is making strenuous efforts to help citizens affected by  terrorist acts and is working to alleviate  their suffering by securing their basic needs and the  appropriate conditions for their return to their homes  , noting that  so far more than 800  thousand citizens returned  to their towns and neighborhoods  and that efforts of government agencies, international organizations , the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and NGOs and people ‘s activists  contributed to overcome difficulties posed by the current situation.

In a press statement, the minister disclosed that government is working on two axes : the first is compensation for the  affected families and the second  , the delivery of humanitarian aid to the citizens living  in temporary centers, displaced  as a result of  armed terrorist acts.

Cost of public and private damages until  March, exceeds SP  416 t 470.1 trillion

The minister revealed that the cost of public and private damages  exceeded  until the end of March,  1.470.416  trillion Syrian pounds (SP) including SP  150 billion as direct damage on  public property involving more than 5,000 public facilities, and   SP  1,100 billion as a cost of  indirect losses caused to public property and SP  40 billion cost of damaged property until the end of in 2012 in several  provinces , besides  damages inflected  in industrial cities.

 He pointed out that the  Reconstruction Committee approved building  temporary centers for 10 thousand  displaced people , including  6 thousand people in the  industrial city of Adra and 4 thousand people in Hesya ‘s industrial city  , adding that a sum of SP 800 million  was allotted for this project.

T. Fateh