Badin:
Despite the release of billions of rupees in annual funds, it has the city and rural drainage system in the Badin district remained dysfunctional for years and raised concerns about the city’s flooding and destruction of crops during the upcoming Monsun season.
Reports reveal that over 50 drainage channels over Badin City, Matli, Tando Bago, Talhar and Golarchi have not been cleaned, muddy or repaired for years. As a result, most of them are now clogged, broken or completely non-functional, while their dams are also aggravated. These include some of the country’s largest drainage projects, such as left bank exit drain (Lbod), Karo Ghanghro, Mir Wah Talhar outcome, Ameer Shah -Draining, Shaikh Manzoor -Draining, Tando -bago -Draining, Lowari Sharif -Serani -Drain City. According to political, social, farmers and fishermen’s groups, billions of rupees are allocated each year for rehabilitation of the drainage system, but widespread corruption and negligence have redirected these funds to the pockets of irrigation, drainage and municipal officials. No matter where some work has been done, it has been described as substandard and ineffective.
Local sources confirm that, as in previous years, no large-scale cleaning or repair work has been done within the monsoon. This raises fears of serious damage to both urban and rural areas, including possible loss of life, destruction of homes and property and immersion of hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land, wiped out standing crops.
Residents, political activists, social organizations and farmer groups have demanded that the Sindh government and relevant authorities immediately launch emergency cleaning and repair operations to avert a threatening disaster. They have also appealed to the Chief Justice of Sindh and the Director -General of the Nab to order a high -level study of the alleged mega corruption involving trillions of rupees awarded in recent years for drainage rehabilitation, and to take strict action against those found responsible.
