Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA
Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA
Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
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 />
Page 79 of 211