DADU, June 12: A team of irrigation engineers inspected progress of work on projects of the Nai Gaj Nala and the flood protective bund on Monday. The team led by Sukkur Barrage Chief Engineer Irrigation Agha Aijaz Ahmed and Western Sindh Circle Larkana Superintending Engineer Ghulam Hyder Qureshi visited the Gaj Diversion Bund’s portions from RD-0 to RD-32 and checked the quality of stones, steel and other materials being used in the repair work.

Assistant Engineer Bashir Ahmed Jatoi told the team that the Bund had been raised to 22 foot with 8 foot width. Ninety per cent of work on the project had been finished and the remaining would be completed by June 15, he said.

Agha Aijaz assured the contractor that the payment would be made in full after the work had been certified and the project finished.

The team then visited parts of Flood Protective Bund from RD-0 to RD-120 and checked the measurement of earthwork.

Assistant Engineer FPB Habibullah Kabooro informed the team that work on the FPB had been completed at a cost of Rs40 million and all the vulnerable parts had been repaired to make them strong enough to face any possible floods.

Agha Aijaz later said while briefing the reporters that 380,000 cusecs water had flowed from Nai Gaj during high floods in 1995, making it the second highest flow from the mountain area in Sindh after Indus river, which inflicted millions of rupees of losses on people.

He said that the Gaj Diversion Bund had been raised to 424-RL from 420-RL with steel and other standard materials.