Embankments, bridges damaged by floods to be restored

Mechanism established to reduce damage caused by monsoon rains in the future

PESHAWAR:

Commissioner Peshawar has ordered construction of embankments, bridges damaged in the last year floods.

On Wednesday he issued orders for the immediate removal of encroachment from the banks of rivers, waterways, canals to save the area from damages due to rains and flood and said that no negligence will be tolerated in this regard.

A meeting was held in this regard in which the deputy commissioners of all the five districts of Peshawar Division including Peshawar, Nowshera, Charsadda, Mohmand and Khyber district and representatives of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) participated. The meeting reviewed the damages caused by monsoon rains in the past few days.

It was decided that the construction work on roads, embankments and bridges damaged due to monsoon rains would be started immediately.

The meeting also established a mechanism to reduce the damages caused by monsoon rains in the future.

In this regard, all the deputy commissioners were instructed to set up quick response committees.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 6^th, 2023.