The river was flowing with 200,000 cusecs when this correspondent visited the Akil loop bund on Tuesday.
Syed Habib Shah of the Sindh irrigation department told Dawn that so far two points — Akil (in Larkana taluka) and Abad Mungli (in Dokri taluka) — had been declared vulnerable where any increase in water could cause damage there.
He said that the high flood would pass on August 11, and arrangements had been made to handle the situation.
Stones were being dumped to stop the erosion, he said.
Another action was seen at mile 2/4 to 2/6 at the Agani-Akil loop bund.
Sources said that last year a scheme of strengthening damaged stone spurs was proposed with the Indus River Commission (RIC) due to changing course tendency of the river.
The IRC was asked to allocate an amount of Rs400 million for the project but had rejected the plan due to non-availability of funds.
Had the scheme been approved and work done according to its specification, there would have been no action and erosion in the flood season along the Akil link bund and the Akil-Agani loop bund, sources said.
On Wednesday, a portion of guava orchard and the shrine of Pir Mohammed Shah Kaheri inside the Akil loop bund were washed away due to the river action.
People at the bund said that Paroo Bhutto, Agani, Mitho Chandio, Shaikh-Taggar, Moor Chandio and Akil villages could be affected with the rising water level in the river as they were situated closed to the Akil- Agani loop bund.
People living in boats had shifted their floating houses (boats) to the right bank side to escape any untoward incident.
People living closed to the left bank of river had moved to some higher locations due to constant rise in flow, the villagers said.
The irrigation official said that the river had started changing course as it was directly striking and subsequently shifting thrust on the right bank after forming islands.
Larkana DCO Naseer Jamali advised the people residing in katcha areas (inside the flood protective bund) to shift to safer places.
He asked the EDO (revenue) and the DDO concerned to arrange shifting of the people to safer places with the assistance of police and revenue field staff immediately.
The EDO (revenue) will be overall in-charge for evacuation of flood victims and their transportation to relief camps.
The irrigation department was making arrangements to properly look after embankments.
Larkana DPO Irfan Baloch said that the police department had set up nine police posts.
Police officials equipped with wireless sets were patrolling the vulnerable points, he said.
The district government has set up a district flood and rain control room in the office of the DCO to monitor the situation caused due to expected rain and flood in the light of forecast issued by the Met office.