Water level in the River Indus has increased alarmingly. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD JAVAID
Amid heavy rains in Punjab, the water level in the River Indus has increased alarmingly, inundating entire kutcha areas from Kashmore, Ghotki, Sukkur, Jacobabad and Larkana to tail end Thatta districts.
Since the road leading to Burira village from Phulpota village, within Ketty Mumtaz police station, was not repaired properly after being washed away in the 2011 floods, the rise in water levels has washed away the road completely. As a result, residents have been forced to cross the kutcha area on boats.
On Friday, when the villagers from remote areas were coming back from the towns they had gone off to get their daily use items, they found the roads filled with water and their standing crops damaged. The residents further reported that the villagers were cut off from Naudero due to rising water level because of which they were unable to come back and forth without a boat.
They grieved that government assigned the contract of filling the breach to its workers who had left their jobs incomplete since 2011. They urged the government construct the washed away portion so that they can move to safer places .
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum's press release said on Friday that they have been planning to send off their boats to evacuate the inundated areas, after they were approached by the district administration for help. The relevant district administrations have received warnings from the met office, federal flood forecast centre and the irrigation department to start a rescue operation to save people living near river.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 17th, 2013.
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