Sawan Khaskheli Badin
According to credible resources, National Disaster Management and Provincial Disaster Management have recently revealed the list of the 13 districts of Sindh province indicating them as high risk of Natural Calamity in the year 2024.
The source revealed that districts Badin, Thatta and Sujawal which are mostly and frequently observed as badly affected by different types of disasters including floods, heavy rainfall, drought and even attacks of swarms of locusts several times.
The people of Badin also dyed existing major risk of available hazard of the Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) which collects the saline water, industrial effluents and Indus River basin flood water of districts including Shaheed Benazir Abad, Sanghar, MirpurKhas and others to district Badin which usually poses the high risk of floods in district Badin since passed many years.
The politicians of the district were also unaware of the alarming situation of high risk however district administration had written the letter a couple of months earlier to NDMA and PDMA for adding districts to the list of districts of Sindh province supposing as high risk of natural calamity year 2024.
Other hand, people of districts demanded the higher authorities of NMDA and PDMA to revisit the issued lists of districts supposing the high risk of natural calamity for the year 2024. Meanwhile, social activists of districts and representatives of CSOs have underlined the need to revisit the list of Sindh’s districts supposed as high risk of natural calamity.
