Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

R R R
KALAT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
QUETTA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TR 0 0 0 0 0 TR 1 TR TR 0 T
SUKKUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TR 0 T T
R R
R
0 0 0 0 0 1
8 11 9 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
SAMUNGLI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TR 0 0 0 0 0 TR T TR TR 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Source: PMD, Ministry of Defence
34. In KP Province, flash floods washed away the head-works, bridges and
roads besides silting of major and minor canals and farms around the rivers,
including civil canals and inundation of vast human settlements; no allegations
were levelled against the officials or politicians who indeed reacted promptly to
restore irrigation network for 2010-11 Rabi crop that limited the losses to Kharif
crops, destroyed by rivers. In Sindh, as many as 2,155 breaches were reported
with canals and minors leading the list of its five irrigation regions including SIDA.
Of these, 134 breaches were to the major and secondary bunds with Tori breach
as the source that topped the damages. In the Punjab, except one induced
breach to RGB, upstream Jinnah Barrage, rest were differently attributed by
concerned officials to unprecedented high volumes and extremely lengthy
durations of the super floods, though serious observations were raised by
professionals about the lack of effective command at site and staff negligence.
The evidence produced before the Punjab Judicial Commission flagged non-
opening of barrage gates in good time, forging of official entries of gate opening
at Jinnah Barrage, use of non-conforming sandy clay beneath the stone pitched
LMB, natural erosion, non-maintenance, dysfunctional electronic gates awaiting
repair since mid July, design issues regarding the bund slope on canal side,
construction of additional weirs during 2004-07 at Taunsa Barrage under the
World Bank project, all combined to create the observed havoc. The fact that the
Taunsa’s LMB had been subjected to extensive repairs in 2008-2009 with design
modification raised more basic questions, inter-alia, in view of the false sense of
security amongst the unsuspecting residents in the vicinity. Be that as it may, the
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