Hyderabad:
The monsoon season being on the horizon, violations in the slopes of the sailors have already started. Nearly half-dozen villages and hundreds of agricultural land was underwater in the city of Seri, Hyderabad, on Monday by water which springs from a breach in the New Phuleli Canal.
However, no victim has been reported following and no livestock animals would have perished. The canal, a head of the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority (AIDS) informed, flowed at a high level of more than 15,000 CUSECs when the incident transpired properties, assets and crops.
According to a report shared by the district administration after the visit of the deputy commissioner Zainul Abedin Memon, the rupture was extended between 40 and 50 feet when the blissing exercise began. The location of the opening was RD-122 in Deh Lakhi Keti, Taluka Latifabad.
A Rescue 1122 official informed that the dike has broken in the village of Nooorai Sharif. The water then flooded Kumon Kambrani, Kamdar Mallah, Laung Mallah and other villages. The crops standing on hundreds of acres of land were flooded with villages giving an image of a sea with submerged lands until human eyes can see.
An AIDS official, who asked for anonymity, revealed that the exercise of closure of the violation had started after sunset because the local population wanted time for the water to run into the channel.
According to him, the water level of the canal was decreased by several thousand brackets after the rupture which allowed the inverted flows.
The official said that the canal had undergone a rehabilitation from 2015 to 2018, but that the work was hydrological structures and adjacent embankments. According to him, the RD-122 was a Katcha [mud reinforced] dike.
AIDS has not yet carried out an investigation into the cause of the violation. The local population told the media that they had pointed out the weakness of the backfill several times to the inferior officials of the authority.
Meanwhile, the District Administration and the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) mobilized the staff to launch drying operations. The 1122 rescue teams also came with boats to save all brown people.
