ISLAMABAD Even though the funding situation for humanitarian assistance has shown remarkable signs of improvement, woes of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) go unnoticed by the quarters concerned owing to mal-administration and lack of coordinated mechanism among various departments. United Nations data available with this correspondent shows that $490 million, which make 72 percent of the $680m, have been generated for reconstruction and rehabilitation of South Waziristans IDPs. However, despite generation of funds, the absence of well-devised strategy has led to numerous loopholes in humanitarian aid process. Currently, 59,000 families comprising 430,000 individuals are residing in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank. Out of these families, only 36,787 families are verified by NADRA, and brought under registration net while 22,213 families are yet to be registered. According to the government directives, only those families would be provided Rs5,000 a month that are verified and registered. This shows that over 22,000 families are still waiting for financial assistance. Likewise, the individuals verified number is 260,000 out of 430,000. As many as 170,000 individuals are awaiting verification to receive financial aid in the rehabilitation centres of Tank, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Apart from that, living conditions have worsened for those IDPs who have moved to Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore. As many as eighty families moved to afore-mentioned cities in November last year but none of them received any governmental aid while some of these families are being supported by the host communities. When TheNation inquired of the UN, it expressed its ignorance about the presence of the non-registered IDPs in major cities. We keep a track record of those families and individuals who prefer moving to rehabilitation centres and get themselves registered with the government bodies, a representative of United Nations told this correspondent. Despite towering claims of the government and civic bodies to support IDPs cause, the absence of rehabilitation centres and food distribution points in major cities of the country is astonishing and questionable. Hundreds of IDPs families could not get themselves registered with relevant authorities since they did not have any access to or information about the rehabilitation and food distribution centres. It is also noteworthy that sometime back, IDP families had visited media offices in Islamabad and Lahore complaining that no heed was being paid to their plight. Some NGOs and Champions of Human Rights had assured these families of their full support but as usual, these promises proved cosmetic pledges for no civic agency, government body or international organisation stepped ahead to address the issue. At present, over 250,000 individual IDPs are suffering due to the ill policies of the government but the government bodies shifted the blame to international NGOs and UN instead of reviewing their strategy.