Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) ( ur, ) is an independent, autonomous, and federal institution of

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tasked and responsible for the operational planning, coordinating, monitoring, and regulating the reconstruction and rehabilitation operations in the

earthquake An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...

affected areas of the country. Codified under th
Article 89(1)
by the

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, the institute is chaired by the appointed and designated Chairman who directly reports to the

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. As of present, the institution is currently chaired by Lt Gen Akhtar Nawaz as its appointed and designated Chairman. On 24 November, Prime Minister

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approved the merger of ERRA with the National Disaster Management Authority

History

ERRA served as the apex institution for formulating the national earthquake public policy for the government and managed financial funds for the efforts and operations involved in the reconstruction programmes. Established on 24 October 2005 as a direct response to the

2005 Kashmir earthquake The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu and ...

(7.6 on the

Richter Scale The Richter scale —also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale—is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 ...

) in north-western Pakistan, ERRA coordinated its largest operation to rebuild and reconstruct the 28,000-km² earthquake effected area (equalling the size of the

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and

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put together). Its first earthquake operations were coordinated and executed by

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who was also its first appointed chairman from its inception, till April 2008, when Lt-Gen Sajjad Akram took over as deputy chairman. He stayed there till April 2010 when Lt Gen

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took over as its 3rd deputy chairman. Unlike other agencies created ad-hoc for post-disaster recovery (e.g. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority or CERA of New Zealand and Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi or BRR of Indonesia), ERRA was institutionalized as a permanent government agency to handle post-disaster recovery on 14 March 2011. This was facilitated through ACT No. V OF 2011: An Act to provide for the establishment of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA).

References

External links

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