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QUETTA: Minister for Public Well being Engineering and WASA Haji Noor Muhammad Dumar together with Deputy Commissioner Home Harnai on Thursday relayed that round 400 homes and greater than 200 outlets have been utterly destroyed by flash floods.
Whereas addressing a press convention, Dumar stated flash floods attributable to a heavy downpour in Harnai city earlier this week broken scores of homes, outlets and crops other than overflowing drains and leaving a number of components of the city inundated.
He went on so as to add that damages have been reported in Harnai city and the neighborhood of Zarmana. “Valuables kept in shops and present in the house were also washed away by the torrent whereas the flash flood also damaged five-to-six acres of agriculture land filled with standing crops.”
As a result of rain, three vehicles of reduction items on an emergency foundation had been dispatched to the affected space whereas a survey to calculate damages is underway. Equipment was additionally supplied to filter the drains and reduction items have been set to be distributed amongst affectees by means of the district administration.
Hailing the efforts of paramilitary forces together with youth of the world, Dumar stated as a result of their well timed and hectic efforts no casualty occurred. “PC-I for the construction of protective drains on permanent basis had already been completed while funds from Chief Minister special grant would be released soon as well.”
He additionally applauded the rich folks and Non-government Organizations (NGOs) to help the affected plenty due to the widespread damages that occurred. “Officials of the irrigation department had been alerted and also were directed to speed up refurbishment work of damaged drains.”
However, the provincial minister accompanying tribal elders visited the affected areas and examined the reduction operation other than issuing directives to involved authorities on the spot.
Deputy Commissioner Harnai, District President Balochistan Awami Celebration (BAP) Malik Israr-ul-Haq Tareen, Advocate Abdul Nasir, Haji Ghulam Jan Tareen and different district officers have been additionally current in the course of the press convention.
Revealed in The Specific Tribune, March 27th, 2020.
