National
May 7, 2021
SUKKUR: As many as five gates of Sukkur and Guddu Barrages have been replaced, while fabrication of several others is underway. This information came to fore during a virtual meeting of the World Bank over the modernization and rehabilitation of Sukkur and Guddu Barrages presided over by Task Team leader François Onimus on Thursday.
Mohiuddin Mughal, Project Director, presented a detailed progress report, saying replacement of the gates of three canals taking off from Guddu Barrage have been completed, while the main barrages gates are under fabrication at a facility in Turkey. The chief resident engineer said 10 out of 65 gates of the main Guddu Barrage have been fabricated in Turkey. Six of those will arrive by end of May. He pledged to install them before the coming flood season.