Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

on the other hand claimed that the peak discharge
capacity at Sukkar and Kotri Barrages is 900,000 and
875,000 cusecs, respectively.
2) That history of breaches did not rule out possibility of
relief cuts, should the need arise, as was the case
with Aliwahan Bund breached in 1976 when
approximately 67,000 cusecs were diverted from five
regulated locations to minimise exposure of the
affected areas and peoples, even if irrelevant as that
option has now been recorded in history including the
Bund Manual.
3) At least in one case, a District Disaster Plan verified
that very often zamindars divert floods to other’s
farms and lands by unauthorized cuts in bunds or
erect private [Zamindara] bunds.
4) The Manual as well as pre-flood identification of 148
bunds in Sindh are vulnerable on many locations,
including the Tori Bund and its secondary loops of old
Ghauspur and Gaurghat, due to various reasons
including wave-wash effect warranted serious
preventive measures but these were not taken before
the flood season.
5) In case of Tori Bund that was more critical in view of
the known departmental disposition of 4 th February
2010 in the IRC meeting that unless the Bund was
strengthened well before 2010 flood season,
likelihood of colossal losses could not be ruled
out. This very fact had also been highlighted in an
earlier meeting of the IRC immediately preceding the
meeting on 4 th February 2010.
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