RAWALPINDI: Soldiers have evacuated 4,305 flood-affected people from inundated areas of Sindh and Balochistan and moved them to safer places, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Sunday. The army aviation has detailed six helicopters for rescue and relief activities. Some 1,200 troops have deployed to evacuate the flood victims in Kandkot, Naseerabad, Jacobabad and Dera Murad Jamali. The military has distributed 22 tons of rations at Dera Murad Jamali and Loralai during relief and rescue operations in the flood-affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan. It has also established a mobile field hospital at Dera Murad Jamali and treated 1,200 patients, With the help of civil administration of District Jacobabad, the army has established a tent village, in which cooked food, bottled water and medicines have been provided to the flood affected people.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2012.
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The Ministry of Food Secutity should be questioned as to why the necessary steps have not been undertaken to prevent these yearly floods, as water logging is the major problem in these areas today. As such agricultural practices should have been adapted to avoid prevalent problems. Miani Forest was waterlogged when the railway system was planned. German foresters were engaged by the British, who then planted Eucalyptus. Once the water table reached the anticipated level, these trees were removed, roots included and suitable trees raised to feed the locomotives.
Is the ministry sleeping?