KASHMORE: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that all out efforts are being made to strengthen the embankments of protective bands of the Indus River on emergency basis in order to face the incoming flood, the peak water flow about 800,000 cusecs(eight Lac) will reach at Guddu Barrage on August 4 and 05.

This he said while talking to mediamen at Guddu barrage in Kashmore-Kandhkot district, on Saturday.

The chief minister also said that safeguarding the lives and property is the responsibility of the local administration and in this regard relief camps were established in different districts.

He advised the people of Katcha areas to shift immediately to the safer places; the local administration will provide facilities to them in this regard.

The chief minister said that Pakistan Army is alert for the assistance of civil administration during the flood emergency and the Pak-Army will also monitor the flood situation in the province.

He also said that the rangers and police will increase the patrolling to ensure security to the officers/officials who will be on the flood duty.

The chief minister informed the pressmen that the amount of Rs. 400 million approved for the strengthening of the protective bunds of River Indus.

He also said that his 28 Sindh cabinet ministers were assigned to monitor the flood situation in their respective areas.

The chief minister also said that the purpose of his visit is to see the position of irrigation water at Guddu barrage and to visit the strengthen work of vulnerable points on the right bank of Indus River.

On the occasion Chief Engineer Guddu barrage Zafarullah Mahar brifed the Sindh Chief Minister regarding the flood situation and flow of water in the Indus River.

He said that eight vulnerable and sensitive points are on the left and right sides of River Indus out of which K.K. protective Bund, Thori Bund and Qadirpur loop bund are more sensitive.

The Secretary Irrigation and Power Shuja Junejo briefed the Sindh Chief Minister that the officers and officials of Irrigation department are working round the clock on the protective bunds in order to face the incoming flood.

Later, The Sindh chief minister along with provincial minister Irrigation and Power Jam Saifulla Dharejo, Minister for Revenue Jam Mehtab Dahar, MPA Haji Anwar Khan Mahar, RPO Sukkur Muhammad Ramzan Channa, DCO Kashmore Syed Abid Ali Shah, PPP leaders and workers visited K.K bund near Baddani town in Kashmore and Kandhkot district.

The chief minister Sindh directed all the DCOs of the province to ensure the shifting of people of Katcha areas to safer places immediately, so that their lives and properties could be safe guarded at every cost.

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