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Irrigation Sector Damages<br />

PROVINCE DAMAGES ESTIMATED<br />

RS MIL<br />

US$ MIL<br />

AJK 14 0.6<br />

Balochistan 2,516 29.6<br />

FATA 255 3.0<br />

Gilgit-Baltistan 138 1.6<br />

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 5,810 68.4<br />

Punjab 2,813 33.1<br />

Sindh 11,638 136.9<br />

Wapda 416 4.9<br />

Sector Total 23,600 277.6<br />

Province-wise damages in the [above] table............and details are<br />

summarized below:-<br />

a. In KP, the floods washed away Munda Head works on Swat River and<br />

damaged all other major irrigation structures partially, including Warsak,<br />

Amandara and Chashma barrages.<br />

b. In Punjab, the breaches at Jinnah and Taunsa Barrages caused the main<br />

damage. The highest damage occurred to the Taunsa-Panjnad Link Canal<br />

and Muzaffargarh Canal.<br />

c. In Sindh, four breaches in flood protection embankments, Left Marginal<br />

Bund of Guddu Barrage and Tori, MS and PB Bunds, caused main<br />

damages. The Tori Bund breach had inundated entire North West Canal<br />

command area and damaged much of the infrastructure on its way back to<br />

the Indus River.<br />

d. In Balochistan, the flood from the Tori breach and flash floods from hill<br />

torrents damaged irrigation and drainage infrastructure in eighteen<br />

districts.<br />

e. The flash floods in AJK, GB and FATA damaged or washed away small-<br />

scale hydro power plants, irrigation and river training works.<br />

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