If the LBOD is not broken near Badin, officials have warned many communities that they may drown.
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BADIN/KARACHI: On Tuesday, the main outfall drain in the lower portions of Sindh's left bank province rose to a dangerous level and began overflowing as a result of the devastating floods that ravaged the upper and central regions of the province on the right bank of the Indus.
Numerous villages and small towns in Sindh's southern provinces, known locally as the "Larr" region, experienced fear of floods while the irrigation department debated opening up the banks of the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD).
Both the village of Hayat Khaskheli in the Badin district and the town of Jhudo in the Mirpurkhas district have been flooded for the past two weeks. People have now been ordered to leave a number of additional locations.
The Irrigation Department's potential cut in the LBOD or a natural breech at any vulnerable spot prompted the order for the evacuation. Syed Sardar Shah, the minister of culture for Sindh, expressed his concern that various areas would submerge if the water were not given enough room.
Through the Badin district, floodwater from many districts, including Khairpur, Nawabshah, Sanghar, and Mirpurkhas, is released into the sea. Thousands of families are currently living on the sides of the highways in Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Umerkot, and Badin as a result of the flooding.
The authorities have been unable to persuade the inhabitants on either side of RD 211 point to agree to a cut for reducing water pressure in the LBOD for the past two weeks. The authorities have not yet made a decision regarding when to cut the bank.
If a cut is done on the left side of the LBOD, a few thousand acres of land and a dispersed population will be affected in Tharparkar's Kaloi Taluka, a dependable source told The Express Tribune. But he continued, "It is a political issue, not a technological one.
The source claimed that in order to protect his constituents and his agricultural property from flooding, a strong politician from that region was vehemently opposing the controlled breach in the LBOD on the left side.
Malkani town residents claimed that although some individuals had begun leaving the region, the majority were still debating whether or not to evacuate. According to Abdul Malik Malkani, "[Even] the government does not have a clear stance."
Malkani said that the RD 211, also known as Zero Point of the LBOD, was where the authorities sought to make their cut. Authorities have ordered inhabitants of Shadi Large town and other neighbourhoods close to the Zero Point to leave due to the ongoing threat.
Authorities planned to cut RD 211, but villagers protested, according to Malkani. It's a political problem, but if the cut is implemented, thousands of families will be uprooted from their homes and numerous communities would be destroyed, he continued.
The water overflowed on the right bank drain due to intense pressure on weak banks, according to the most recent information from the area, submerging hundreds of villages in the Malkani Sharif, Saman Sarkar, Pir Bodlo, and Pangrio union councils of the Badin district.
The personnel of the Irrigation Department were confident that a breach will happen very soon, an official disclosed to The Express Tribune. He revealed that they had warned the political establishment to stop RD 211 short before it caused chaos and uprooted thousands of people.
Tando Jan Mohammad, Dighri, and Kot Ghulam Mohammad of the Mirpurkhas district, together with Pithoro, Samaro, and Kunri of the Umerkot district, and some of Khipro in the Sanghar district, were selected as the locations that could be impacted in the event of breaches and spilling water.
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