- Situation Overview
The relief operations in both Rajanpur & DG Khan continued on 7th day. Army, Government, NGOs and other stake holders remained busy in relief work in flood affected areas. The flood response has been enhanced by the Government and other relief organizations.
Although the flood water has receded from most of the localities, yet most of the low lying areas are still water logged. Although the survivors have started moving back home localities, still a huge number of people are in camps and living along the road side in miserable condition, looking for external help. Fresh wave of flood water has arrived today on pacahat side of Rajanpur, due recent rain showers on Koh Suleiman range. Metrological department has forecasted another spell of heavy rains in next 3 to 4 day, with a possibility of another flood wave both on hill torrent and river side.
Glimpses of huge infrastructural damages are visible across the flood affected areas. Most of the houses with broken walls, collapsed roofs, are in non livelable condition. The discussions with the survivors reveal that most of them are still in shock and traumatized. One of the survivor told that they were sleeping while the gushing flood water approached in the middle of the night, the speed of the water was so high that only in 10 mintes the water level raised up to 4 feet, and they hardly managed to evacuate their families and children in the darkness of the night.
Widespread damages have been reported in 18 UCs of Rajanpur and 13 UCs of DG Khan. The hill torrent flood has affected all the three Theses of Rajanpur. The actual figures of losses are yet to be compiled by the Government, which can be enormously high even and more than expectations.
The army equipped with dumper tricks, remained busy in paving the mud roads to make the access to flood affected areas, in this regard the approach has been made upto UC Waha Lashari and some other UCs of Rajanpur, while the UC Harrand which is also badly affected, is still in assessable. In DG Khan all the flood affected UCs are accessible, however the further approach to inside villages is still not possible due to waterloging. The field visit of QC team to the UC Gadai, UC Choti Zareen, UC Mamori and UC Paigah of DG Khan, reveals that almost 70% of the area is damaged including, crop destruction, infrastructural damages, and wide spread human displacements.
The breaches of DG Canal, total five in number (Shah Sadrudin, Kala, Gadai, Choti Zarin-1, Choti Zarin-2) have been repaired by the army.
