Pakistan opens headwork gates, allows flood water flow into its area
With the river, which has been filled by the water coming from the Sirsa, the Siswan, the Sangrao, the Budhki and the Swan rivers, wreaking havoc in most districts of Malwa for the past five days, the situation would have been worse, if Pakistan had closed its gates near Fazilka.
Pakistan opens headwork gates, allows flood water flow into its area
Chandigarh: For a change, Pakistan is acting as a “friendly neighbour”! Unlike in the past, when the neighbouring country would close its gates at the Suleiman Headworks of the Sutlej, while it was in spate in Punjab, the neighbouring country has allowed the gushing river water to flow into its territory.
With the river, which has been filled by the water coming from the Sirsa, the Siswan, the Sangrao, the Budhki and the Swan rivers, wreaking havoc in most districts of Malwa for the past five days, the situation would have been worse, if Pakistan had closed its gates near Fazilka. But water is now flowing smoothly into the Pakistan territory. Senu Duggal, deputy commissioner of fazilka
This, say officials in the state Irrigation Department, has helped control the havoc that the gushing river waters flowing downstream from Harike would have created, if Pakistan kept its gates closed. Today, 1.92 lakh cusecs of water was reported at Hussainiwala, which is flowing into the neighbouring country.
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