Fine/Lahore:
The Fullan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) has suspended the supply of electricity to more than 113,000 consumers in 13 South Punjab districts as a precautionary measure after an increase in flood water levels.
According to the officials, the electricity supply of 151 feeders has been disconnected at the transformative level under the Operating Procedures (SOP) Security to avoid accidents and life of safeguard.
In the Sahiwal district, the energy supply to 15,610 consumers in nine feeders was cut due to floods. The supply to 7,685 consumers has been restored after the flood water backed away.
In Bahawalpur, 10,987 consumers in 22 feeders were also affected.
Similarly, 13 feeders in Lodhran with 924 consumers, 13 in Pakpattan with 6,167 consumers and five in Rahim Yar Khan with 1,509 consumers have been turned off.
The situation was also critical in Vehari, where 23,395 consumers have been disconnected in 15 feeders.
Other affected districts include Khanewal with 20,933 consumers in 14 feeders, Bahawalnagar with 6,992 consumers in 20 feeders, Rajanpur with 124 consumers in two feeders, Dera Ghazi Khan with two consumers in a feeder, muzaffargarh with 10,114 consumers in 20 feeders and kot Adu with 275 consumers in a food of a food of a food.
MEPCO has established flood relief camps in all districts, headed by SDOS and Xens, with line personnel working 24 hours.
The teams monitored flood water levels and remained on alert to respond to any emergency and restore electricity as soon as conditions improved, sources from MEPCO added.
According to the Punjab Help Commissioner, Nabeel, Javed, more than 4.15 million people in 4,150 villages have been affected by floods in the Ravi rivers, Sutlej. and Chenab. Of these, more than two million people have been relocated in safe areas, while rescue efforts are ongoing in severely flooded regions. An official report confirms the loss of 56 lives so far.
The crops standing in thousands of acres have been destroyed, particularly in Bahawalnagar, fine. And Kabirwala. In Bahawalnagar, 143 villages were submerged, forced more than 100,000 residents to migrate. It has been informed of a similar devastation in Kabirwala, where the waters of the floods of the Ravi submerged 40 villages, leaving more than 80,000 homeless people. The authorities have established 423 help camps, 512 medical camps and 432 veterinary camps in the affected districts. Together with the evacuation of people, more than 1.5 million cattle have also moved to safer places. In Jalpur Pirwala Tehsil de Finen, the worst hit area due to its location at the confluence of the Sutlej and Chenab rivers, more than 50 villages have been flooded.
The Multan City Police officer (CPO) Sadiq Ali confirmed that 14 army ships, eight 1122 rescue ships and five hired by the police are involved in the rescue mission, which takes the total of 27 ships. In Mandi Manga, the 1122 rescue teams transferred nine people trapped in Ravi flood waters to a safe place.
The protective dikes in Kahror Pakka, Rathanwala, Mochiwala. And Dera Dilawar collapse, allowing water to flow quickly to populated areas.
In Bahawalnagar and Chishtian, rapes in temporary embankments built by the locals have cut dozens of villages from nearby cities.
The situation got worse after a dike in Alipur yielded, immersing additional agreements.
With a new rainy period, the authorities fear more launches from Indian dams, which could aggravate the crisis downstream in Punjab.
The flood forecast division reported extremely high water flows: 543,000 CUSECs in Trimmu and 489,000 Cusecs in Panjnad in the Chenab, 152,000 Cusecs in Baloki in Ravi, and a very high flood in the Point Ganda Singh Wala de Sutlej’s Ganda Singh. There have also been high level floods in Shahdara, Sadhanai and Head Sulemanki.
