Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

Employment of Zamindari Labour in Connection with Bund
work ( 117).
vi) Chapter XI deal with Emergent Measures or Causes of
Failure of Bunds and Methods Used to combat them under
various sub-heads: Common Causes of failure of Bunds
(118), River Erosion (119), Failure of Bund Sluices (120),
Inadequate Freeboard (121), Overtopping (122), Wave-wash
(123), Failure Due to Inadequate Cover(124), Slips and Their
Treatment ( 125), Unequal Settlement (126), Leaks( 127),
Under-Ground Leaks or ‘Blow out’( 128), How to Close an
Underground leak (129) and Prevention is Better than Cure (
130).
vii) Chapter XII deals with Breaches in River Bunds and How to
close them: Causes of Breaches (131) and immediate action
in the event of Breach (132).
viii) The above extracts were further supplemented by one of the
Petitioners who filed additional details from Chapter XII of
the Manual that did not fully conform to the position taken by
the department before the SJC and containing: Preliminary
Measures Necessary for Successful Closing of Breaches
(133), Improvements in Communications Required
(134),Earth required(135), Definite plan of Action
required(136) One Method of Closing Large River
Breaches(137),Closing of 1942 Breach in Sukkur Begari
Bund( 138), Establishment required(139), Material
required(140),Plant required( 141) and Labour
required(142).
ix) Chapter XIII Periodical Reports and Returns under the
heads: Erosion Statement (143: IRC Form no.1), Abkalani
Report (144: IRC Form no. 2), Reports on the State of Bund
Sluices and Regulators (145), Wetting of New Bunds (146),
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