SIALKOT-The Irrigation Department has not even started work to repair the eight big breaches occurred in Nullah Aik and two in Nullah Dek's protective dykes in Pasrur tehsil, as per government officers.
Work on the breaches will start soon, said the district coordination officer. However, the Irrigation Department has repaired only those breaches occurred in the protective dyke of Nullah Aik which had flooded the Sialkot city.
The DCO said that nine breaches occurred in Nullah Aik in Sialkot city and its surroundings due to the high flood. He said that the total capacity of water in Nullah Aik was 25,000 cusecs here, while the big flow of 38,102 cusecs flood passed through it unexpectedly after the release of water by India during the night of July 27, 2016, which caused nine big breaches in the banks and protective dykes.
The DCO added that the entire flood situation was under control in Sialkot district. He said that the floodwater level was continuously receding in Rivers Chenab and Jammu-Tavi at Head Marala near Sialkot and the seasonal Nllahs Aik, Dek, Palkhu, Bhed and Bassunter.
He said that the main Marala-Ravi-Link (MR Link) Canal has been closed by the Irrigation Department. He added that the floodwater of the swollen Nullahs was being spilled into it due to which the water level is receding in all the inundated and flooded villages in Pasrur tehsil, Bajwat villages and other flood-hit areas in Sialkot district. He said that relief activities were still on in the flood ht areas of Sialkot, Daska and Pasrur tehsils here.
The high flood in Nullah Aik caused nine big breaches into the banks and protective dykes of this Nullah Aik in near Sialkot city's congested Naikapura, Hajipura, Muhallah Araazi Yaqub, Shujaabad-Shafi Da Bhatta, Bahaar Colony and near village Nagor-Ghueinky (Daska tehsil). These breaches flooded most of the city areas of Sialkot and badly affected as many as 25,000 people in Sialkot city.
Two breaches were occurred in flooded Nullah Dek at Chajjan and Khewa Bajwa spots n Pasrur tehsil, which inundated the standing seasonal crops on hundreds of acres of the land in surrounding 25 villages.