SHIKARPUR: The 50-ft breach was occurred in Sindh Canal near Machi village on here Sunday morning.
As per details, the villagers on self help basis plugged the breach after their efforts for some hours and thus they saved their village Machi and its adjoining localities from the flood from Rais canal.
However the standing paddy crops on more than one hundred acres were flooded with the water of Rais canal.
The affected villagers staged a demonstration at bypass road near District Jail and blocked the National highway road against the Irrigation Department and District Administration.
They demanded for compensation of the paddy crops destroyed in flood water of Rais canal due to negligence of Irrigation Department.
