Badin:
Despite the release of billions of rupees in annual funds, the urban and rural drainage system of the Badin district has remained dysfunctional for years, which raises concerns of urban floods and the destruction of cultures during the next monsoon season.
Reports reveal that more than 50 drainage channels in Badin City, Matli, Tando Bago, Talhar and Golarchi have not been cleaned, flirted or repaired for years. As a result, most of them are now obstructed, broken or completely non -functional, while their embankments have also deteriorated. These include some of the largest drainage projects in the country such as the drain in the study of the left bank (LBOD), Karo Ghanghro, Mir Wah Talhar Outfall, Ameer Shah Drain, Shaikh Manzoor Drain, Drain Tando Bago, Drain Lowari Sharif, Drain Serani and the former Drain of Budha passing through Badin City. According to political, social groups, farmers and fishermen, billions of rupees are allocated each year to the rehabilitation of the drainage system, but generalized corruption and negligence have diverted these funds in the pockets of irrigation, drainage and municipal officials. Wherever some work has been carried out, it has been described as inferior and ineffective.
Local sources confirm that, as in previous years, no large -scale cleaning or repair work has been done before the monsoon. This raises serious damage to urban and rural populations, in particular loss of life, the destruction of houses and goods, and the overwhelming of hundreds of thousands of agricultural land, annihilating standing crops.
Residents, political activists, social organizations and farmers have demanded that the Sindh government and the relevant authorities immediately launch emergency cleaning and repair operations to avoid an imminent disaster. They also called upon the Sindh chief judge and the director general of the NAB to order a high -level survey on the mega, alleged mega involving billions of rupees allocated in recent years for drainage rehabilitation, and to take strict measures against those deemed responsible.
