Report of Rain Affected District Mirpurkhas

By: Jaggarta Social Welfare Organization August, 2011

Mirpurkhas lies in the southern part of the Sindh province and shares a Western border with Hyderabad, to the North is Sanghar and Umerkot in the East with Tharparkar and South with Badin and Tharparkar. Mirpurkhas district has a population of 1004600. The district is comprised of six Talukas/Tehsils Mirpurkhas, Digri, Sindhri, Hussain Bux Mari, Jhudo and Kot Ghulam Mohammed. There are 41 Union Councils at district and out of that 28 are rural. 74.54 % of the population lives in the rural areas. The livelihood of majority of the people depend on agriculture and lives stock. It is also known for city of NGOs and Mangoes.

In these days rainy season has covered all over Sindh. People, who were already in the lap of poverty and shortage of water, had made their lands barren. Lower part of Sindh also has various problems in this regard.

All these problems are multiplied because of poor system of LBOD. It is seemed that rain is a real problem, but mistakes and omissions committed by LBOD played key role in the destruction.

Due to current torrential rain five Talukas/Tehsil of District Mirpurkhas has been affected badly which are Kot Ghulam Muhammad, Dighri, Hussain Bux Mari, Mirpurkhas and Jhudo.

No alternate planning was adopted by the Irrigation and Left Bank Out fall Drainage LBOD official due to this negligence on part of the Irrigation Staff 80% of the total crop has been destroyed and the remaining 20% on the verge of collapse. Thousands affected people shelterless and sitting in open sky on roads. During the heavy and torrent rain for the Irrigation staff paid no need to close the breaches of Same Nala (LBOD), Canals and Branches, in the result hundreds of villages under the water till to date.

Affected Taluka’s # of UC Affected Kot Ghulam Muhammad, 30 Mirpurkhas, Digri, Jhudo

Jaggarta Social Welfare Organization Details of Losses:

Affected Relief Affected People in # Human Injured Destroyed Destroyed Paka People Camps Relief Camps Death Kacha Houses Houses

276500 102 17160 14 197 23794 2886

Agriculture:

Destroyed crops Fully Destroyed Crops 580430 acres 128211 acres

Livestock losses:

Livestock losses 2336

Support received to date: At the time of the initial assessment, JAGGARTA was the only organization whose team had reached the area. Subsequently, the government organized some food distributions.

Immediate needs: Drinking Water, Tents, Temporary Latrine, Shelter, NFIs, medical support, food items, electricity, provision of emergency lights and candles.

Contact: JAGGARTA Organization Cell: 0302-3319533 / 0334-3553908 Email: [email protected] www.jaggarta.org

Jaggarta Social Welfare Organization