MUZAFFARGARH:A large swathe of agricultural land cultivated with crops started submerging following gradually breaking of Super bund No. 3 here on the east bank of Taunsa Barrage, official source informed.
Irrigation department closed the dyke immediately and sent heavy machinery to the spot to rescue inhabitants.
According to the details, the super dam constructed in June 2021 costing with Rs. 130 million but it failed to control erosion of river Sindh and was going to immerse in the water.
XEN Taunsa Barrage along with its staff and heavy machinery reached to the duke and started efforts to stop the erosion of the river. “Erosion would stop and bund would safe further”, he said.
Locals namely Rahim Bakhsh, Khuda Bakhsh, Abdul Karim, Noor Mohammad, Amir, Rehman and others who were present at the super dam said their wheat crops and houses were flooded and this process was still going on.
According to them, river erosion was started at this place from the year 2019. They said that link road connecting three points built on the super dam could be damaged due to breakage of the bund.