Commissioner directs officers to finalize flood fighting plan.

SUKKUR -- Commissioner Sukkur Ghulam Mustafa Phull has directed all deputy commissioners (DCs) of the Sukkur division to prepare their flood fighting plan and put all their resources forward to ensure minimizing the losses.

Presiding over a meeting held here at his office on Thursday, the commissioner said that a fool proof relief and rescue mechanism should be devised at Taluka level for a timely and effective response.

He also directed the irrigation officers to identify vulnerable points of the canals in their respective jurisdictions and ensure the provision of heavy machinery, bulldozers and flood fighting material at the sites to strengthen the same in advance.

He directed all the Taluka Municipal Officers (TMOs) to ensure desilting of the sewerage lines, cleanliness of their cities and towns, and also to arrange dewatering pumping machines in advance, to save any low-lying areas from inundation.

Talking about river embankments, he directed the irrigation...