CM reviews progress on floodwater removal

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, in a virtual meeting with Irrigation Department engineers reviewed progress on removal of floodwater from across the province. Zarif Iqbal Khero, Chief Engineer Development II, told the chief minister that water was receding from LBOD Spinal smoothly at about 2-3 decimal a day which would increase as time passed.

He added that speedy evacuation was taking place in Sanghar district, especially in Tando Mithakhan deh as well as in Mirpurkhas apart from Taulka Judo which was dependent of further reduction in Spinal drain at RD 295. The chief minister was told that dewatering of Tando Bago area of Badin district would take time because of a breach in Dhoro Puran.

Khero informed the meeting about the core issue of land acquisition from private owners to connect Tando Jam Mohammad drain to outfall into Dhoro Puran for execution which has started but some people have approached the court which has subsequently summoned the irrigation officers to appear on October 13.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 15^th, 2022.