Petitions for Flood Relief and Financial Assistance Addressed to District Magistrate

Sub title : Applications from Students, Displaced Professionals, Elderly Residents, and Impoverished Families Seeking Aid

Subject: Individual Relief Applications | Flood Damage | Educational Hardship | Refugee Assistance

Date of publication: 1956

Language: English

Page: 184 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28654

Keyword: Bogra -- District Magistrate -- Relief Petitions -- Flood Relief 1955 | Student Aid -- Educational Hardship -- Homeopath -- Displaced Professionals | Elderly Poverty -- Fatima Jinnah -- Dacca -- East Pakistan -- District Relief Fund -- Individual Applications

Abstract: Collection of handwritten and typed petitions submitted to the District Magistrate of Bogra and other authorities in 1955-1956, requesting financial assistance from relief funds. Applicants include a veterinary student seeking educational support, a university graduate needing examination fees, a displaced homeopath wanting to purchase medical books, a bedridden former estate employee, and elderly residents with flood-damaged homes. Includes one appeal to Fatima Jinnah for intervention.

Description: Comprises eight individual applications dated 1955-1956 requesting financial assistance ranging from Rs.5 to Rs.500. Documents reveal diverse hardship cases: a third-year veterinary student from a poor teacher's family seeks Rs.150 for educational expenses; an M.A. graduate requests Rs.5 for examination fees; a displaced homeopath from Patna seeks Rs.100 to purchase medical books; a bedridden former estate employee requests Rs.50 plus rice and cloth; a Dacca resident appeals directly to Fatima Jinnah for Rs.500 for house repairs. Also includes supporting character certificates and a bank manager's recommendation letter for a relief applicant. Provides insight into the petitioning process and the range of vulnerabilities addressed by mid-1950s relief systems in East Pakistan. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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