Badin:
Despite the release of billions of rupees in annual funds, the urban and rural drainage system of the district of Badin has remained dysfunctional for years, which increases the concerns of urban floods and the destruction of crops during the next season of Monzón.
The reports reveal that more than 50 drainage channels in Badin City, Matli, Tando Bago, Talhar and Golachi have not been cleaned, dredged or repaired for years. As a result, most of them are now obstructed, broken or completely non -functional, while their embankments have also deteriorated. These include some of the country’s largest drainage projects, such as drainage drain Budha for the city of Badin. According to political, social, farmers and fishermen groups, billions of rupees are assigned each year for the rehabilitation of the drainage system, but generalized corruption and negligence have diverted these funds in the irrigation, drainage and municipal officials pockets. Wherever some work has been carried out, it has been described as poor and ineffective.
Local sources confirm that, as in previous years, cleaning or large -scale repair works have not been carried out before the monsoon. This increases fear of serious damage to urban and rural populations, including the possible loss of lives, the destruction of households and properties, and the immersion of hundreds of thousands of agricultural land acres, eliminating crops standing.
Residents, political activists, social organizations and groups of farmers have demanded that the Government of Sindh and the relevant authorities immediately initiate emergency cleaning and repair operations to avoid an imminent disaster. They have also appealed to the president of the president of Sindh and the general director of NAB to order a high -level investigation into the alleged mega corruption that involves billions of rupees assigned in recent years for drainage rehabilitation, and to take strict measures against those responsible.
