SUKKUR: For Mai Bakhshul, uprooting her family and shifting home every monsoon is a norm. She moved to the embankment with her ailing husband and other family members. Shifting to embankments during floods, and later back to the villages has become a routine for them. According to her, the katcha (riverbed) area is more fertile than other lands. “The area turns more fertile after the floods,” she said. “Life in katcha is not easy but we have been living here since a very long time and that is why we love it.” Bakhshul also mentioned that many families brought their stocks of grains and cattle with them, but many were unable to do so because of the rising water. Bakhshul hails from Abdullah Shah village, situated in the katcha area of Soomro-Panhwari protective embankment near Pano Akil. Like dozens of other villages, this village is also surrounded by flood water and the residents have started to move to safe places along with their cattle. In the 2010 disaster caused by the flood, the water level went high enough to destroy the mud-house settlements. Bakhshul said that human lives, households and cattle were affected at that time. “This year, the water has not entered our village, but the mosque and graveyard have drowned.”
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 05:15:52 +0000
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