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Praful Chander Nagpal

Fazilka, August 28

Although the floodwater has started receding in the Fazilka area, residents of Mohar Jamsher village are still facing flood fury from the Pakistan side.

“The floodwater has been entering our village from Pakistan. Although the current has reduced, water is still entering our fields,” said Sarpanch Hansa Singh. The internal roads of the village were also submerged, he added. Hansa Singh said of the 1,435 acres of the agricultural land, the paddy crop in about 800-900 acres had been damaged due to the floods. He said two kutcha houses had also collapsed in the village.

Notably, the flood-prone village is surrounded by Pakistan on three sides and connected to India on the fourth, that too via the Sutlej.

When contacted, SDM Subhash Khatak said only 20,000 cusecs of water was discharged recently from the Hussainiwala headworks as compared to more than 50,000 cusecs released earlier. When asked about water coming from the Pakistan side, the SDM said a small quantity of water might have entered the Indian side at Mohar Jamsher village.

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