Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

decades prevented the 1976 repeat options at
Aliwahan, similar consideration could have prevailed
and demonstrated for the farmers and inhabitants in
Thatta-Sajawal, to prevent havoc that unfolded twenty
days later, on 27 th August, 2010.
9) The Commission noted that one ’District Contingency
Plan’ formulated by a DDMA in Sindh verified that
local influentials frequently resort to unauthorized
cuts, to divert floods away from their lands to harm
others.
10) The Commission took note of extensive
encroachments of acquired lands in Katcha and
around river beds, farming in the prohibited zones,
construction of private bunds in river beds and abuse
of the crest surfaces for various unauthorized
purposes, including transportations, to which staff’s
insecurity from lawless elements was added as
avoidable hazards to justify lowering of guard by
concerned O & M staff of the Irrigation department;
these had no bearing on the responsibilities that had
to be discharged by Provincial machinery, through
timely actions. During visit to Tori, a local official
boasted of his tribal affiliation to claim that he could
take any member of the Commission anywhere, at
any hour of the day/ night without any risk!
59. As regards plea on non-availability of funds, it was pointed out by MD
SIDA that Rs. 200 million were outstanding for works already executed by the
field staff which could only act within certain limits. The Commission noted that if
SIDA could undertake essential works without funds, what prevented the CE
Guddu or his immediate superior in the Department to carry out undertake
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