HYDERABAD, July 22: A large portion of the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (Site), Hyderabad, has been flooded due to the overflow of Phuleli Canal and many industrial units and residential pockets have been completely submerged.

Besides the entire Nara Jail locality, quite a few poultry farms and industrial units, including Sunshine Flour Mills, Sarfaraz Daal Mills, Shah Noorani Daal Mill and City Daal Mills, were badly affected by the spillage.

The Senior Vice President of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mohammad Akram Arain, along with the members of the executive committee, on Sunday visited the affected areas and assured the mill-owners and the people that the DCO and irrigation department would be apprised of the situation.

It may be pointed out here that on the one hand the growers of interior Sindh are protesting against the acute shortage of water and the irrigation department has resorted to rotation programme while on the other hand breaches in canal banks and overflow submerging village after village and destroying standing crops.