HYDERABAD           -           The Sindh High court Friday ordered the finance department of Sindh province to submit details of the funds released for Dadu district since June, 2022. The bench comprising Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro and Justice Adnan-ul-Karim Memon gave directions in a petition concerning poor infrastructure and a lack of sanitation in Dadu after the monsoon rains and flood. The court observed that in its previous order in the same petition, which was filed by advocate Mumtaz Ahmed Lashari, had not been implemented. At the hearing, the civil judge and judicial magistrate I of Dadu submitted a report pointing out the city’s infrastructure, drainage, traffic management, and other problems. “The report appears to be a sufficient charge sheet to initiate proceedings against the district of Dadu,” the bench noted. The civil judge in his report outlined that the drainage line of the city’s main road from SSP chowk to Shahjahan Park was found blocked during his visit. According to him, the sewage was overflowing on the road and creating problems for the commuters and traffic. He informed the SHc that a 24-inch diameter drainage line was built in Dadu town, back in the 1960s, and since then it had not been upgraded. He told that the existing capacity of the system was far below the required capacity, and at several places solid waste had piled up over the drain. The civil judge quoting the municipal administrator informed the SHc that the drainage line was designed for a population of around 20,000 around 6 decades ago, while the city’s population had increased to over 200,000 people, currently. The officials informed the judge that there were a total of 11 drainage sub-networks in the town but none of them was connected with the storm drain in the city’s hub, Mundhar naka chowk. He also said that the administrator informed him, during the visit, that the drain could be connected to the drainage network by laying up to a-200 feet to 300 feet pipeline.