Rain in Karachi: What preparations and arrangements has government made?

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00:00The meeting that took place with regards to the rain in which the chief meteorologist was also present

00:06What was decided in that meeting?

00:07All the administrative matters were taken into consideration

00:10The minister said that he has instructed all the divisional commissioners

00:13And the monitoring of the drains and the machining required in the drinking areas

00:17Should be done on time

00:19Let's talk about the arrangements

00:21We have with us in the studio, Deputy Commissioner Central

00:23Fawad Ghaffar Sumro

00:25Thank you so much Fawad sahib

00:26Thank you so much for being with us and for waiting

00:29Please tell us that this time there are a lot of rain arrangements

00:33Here you are told that if there is a light rain

00:35Then we forget where the ditch was yesterday and where it is today

00:39So now it must be quite concerning for you guys as well

00:42What preparations are you doing here?

00:43Yes, absolutely

00:44See, this time the rain prediction is forecast

00:47That there are almost intermittent spells which will run till 31st August

00:51Yes, yes

00:52Now the good thing about this is that it is intermittent

00:54The rain forecast is that there will be a cumulative rain of 200 mm

01:00And there will be a spell of more than 40 mm

01:03I was just watching on your channel

01:05That there has been a rain of 52-53 mm in Qaidabad

01:10And in Surjani and Maripur there has been a very low rain of 10-12 mm

01:15So these are intermittent spells which are happening in different areas of the city

01:19And the district administration and divisional administration is fully geared up

01:25Control rooms have been established at the district level and at the divisional level

01:29Rescue 112 is there, PDM is there

01:32And all the civic and local governments are fully prepared

01:36But the numbers that you have given us are not that much

01:40It is going to rain now

01:41And if we talk about the other areas of Sindh apart from Karachi

01:45Then there is a prediction of 400-500 mm

01:48I will just focus on today's situation

01:50It did not rain much

01:52There is water in the underpass

01:53People had difficulty coming to the office in the morning

01:55We were stuck in traffic for a long time

01:56So despite these arrangements being good, why is this situation in such a low rain?

02:01See, the underpass is almost clear, as far as I know

02:04I myself am a DC of Central

02:06So it is almost clear

02:07I have come, so I got water

02:09Which underpass?

02:11This area of yours, the north area

02:14I have come from here

02:15Okay, I will check it

02:16I am also coming from the north

02:18So it is almost clear

02:19See, when suddenly the spell of rain is going on

02:22Maybe it will take 10 minutes

02:24Maybe because of that, the water accumulates a little

02:27Secondly, it is necessary to understand that the water that you are seeing on the roads

02:32It goes through sweeping

02:33And all the staff of Solid Waste Management Board are on the roads

02:38They also do sweeping

02:39And all your workers are still there

02:44Okay, tell me, you said in the beginning that these will be intermittent spells

02:49That is, it will be done one by one

02:51It won't rain so much at a time

02:52But the point is, the difference in them

02:55That is, if we talk about timing

02:57It may happen after 4 hours, after 5 hours

02:59And Pakistan is in its place

03:01The system works differently in Lahore and Islamabad

03:03It takes time to get water here

03:05It is not a story of 10 minutes or 15 minutes, it is a story of several hours

03:08If there will be spells one after the other, how will it be managed?

03:12We don't have a system of stormwater drainage

03:14If I talk about the streets and the streets

03:16The system of sewerage and water is mixed

03:20That is why there is a problem with our roads

03:23Take the example of carpeting

03:25It is not visible when it rains

03:27Although I think the government must have spent a lot of money on it

03:29Yes, absolutely

03:30See, every city has its own design system

03:33Except Karachi

03:35No, see, the system in Karachi is much better

03:37Compared to last year, 2022

03:39In comparison with what?

03:41Let me tell you

03:43See, this time the district administration is working more on the roads

03:49All the dewatering pumps of PDMA are already stationed at all the major choking points and flash points

03:57Their numbers are shared

03:59And apart from this, the talks that the mayor has just talked about

04:03A lot has already been done about it

04:05Advisory has also been issued

04:07And it has also been said that all their machinery will be on the road

04:09He will be on the road

04:11He is also supervising all the work

04:13In addition to this, the traffic pipeline has also been established

04:17So things are obviously

04:19The system design is not like this

04:21As compared to Lahore

04:23I was saying that my question was basically

04:25Our stormwater drainage system

04:27You know that in big cities there are different systems

04:29And sewerage systems are different

04:31Here then

04:33They are going to the same place

04:35Because the stormwater drainage system does not exist in Karachi

04:37You are absolutely right

04:39But to install a stormwater drainage system in a city

04:41Its cost becomes very prohibitive

04:45That should be part of the master plan

04:47You know better when the master plan was made

04:49See that is why

04:51Carpeting will also start after this spell

04:55The mayor has also said

04:57Carpeting will start again after the monsoon spell

05:03Your point is absolutely right

05:05The system should be designed in this way

05:07But urban flooding

05:09Suddenly there is a lot of rain

05:11More water comes after more rain

05:15Urban flooding phenomenon

05:17Everyone is experiencing

05:19The city of Dubai is also experiencing

05:21Who did not design the system in this way

05:23But the good thing about it is

05:25Almost all the resources

05:27It is on the ground

05:29And things are not in such a situation

05:31That you get stranded somewhere

05:33You get stranded

05:35You get stuck in traffic for hours

05:37Our representatives were saying one thing

05:39That the mayor's instructions are in place

05:41But the town administration

05:43Is not able to cooperate

05:45Today they were saying manually

05:47Our representatives were saying

05:49That the stormwater drainage system is manual

05:53The commissioner has given a clear instruction

05:55That the district administration

05:57Has a key role

05:59And the district administration

06:01Has a coordination effort

06:03Between the TMC and TMCs

06:07As your representative said

06:09In the inner areas

06:11The dewatering pump

06:13Is basically the work of TMCs

06:17And again

06:19It is the mayor's civil system

06:21So the drainage can also be done manually

06:23The water collected on the roads

06:25Will go through sweeping

06:27The water collected on the roads

06:29Will go through sweeping

06:31Now where there is no stormwater

06:33Drainage

06:35I could not make a video

06:37I was coming from one place

06:39And I was seeing that the water is coming

06:41From the other side of the road

06:43So I thought what difference does it make

06:47I am talking about Banaras

06:49I don't know if it comes to your area

06:51No it doesn't come to my area

06:53If we get machinery

06:55It will make our life easier

06:57Machinery is deployed

06:59PDMA has deployed machinery

07:01At 30 major points

07:03KMC has deployed machinery

07:05At 10 major points

07:07Apart from this

07:09Karachi and Water Service Corporation

07:11Has deployed 22 to 23 suction machines

07:13But it is important to understand

07:15That this machinery

07:17Is big

07:19Machinery of 4 or 6 inches

07:21When there is a good quantity of water

07:23This road

07:25Is in your area

07:27Going from the board office

07:29The condition of the road

07:31You are saying that later

07:33Carpeting will be done

07:35I think it will be done in August or September

07:37As I told you earlier

07:39The last spell

07:41Which we are experiencing

07:43By the 10th of September

07:45The monsoon season will end

07:47What is the issue in the area of Hyderi

07:49The issue is

07:51The surface drainage

07:53You have to drain water from the road

07:55Because of which

07:57The water coming down from the flowers

07:59Accumulates

08:01And we have to remove it through sweeping

08:03The carpeting

08:05You must have the record of those companies

08:07Government records must be there

08:09If a time frame

08:11Is given

08:13Before that

08:15You can ask them

08:17About the material

08:19There are good accountability mechanisms

08:21KMC has introduced

08:23Basically this domain

08:25Is of KMC

08:27KMC is in charge of M&R

08:29And development

08:31And now

08:33We had a talk

08:35With the Metropolitan Commissioner

08:37He said that

08:39They have hired reputed firms

08:41But the change

08:43Takes time

08:45But you are seeing the improvement

08:47Like you said

08:49This is the same spell

08:51But you must have seen

08:53There is no major arteries

08:55We will talk about it after 3-4 days

08:57This time

08:59The situation is much better

09:01Thank you so much

09:03Commissioner Central

09:05Fawad Ghaffar

09:07I hope things are better

09:09But we have to work a lot

09:11We have a big city

09:13We have to work on it

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