Wheat on 400 acres damaged in flooding

Abohar, November 22

Around 400 acres of recently sown wheat and mustard crop got submerged due to a breach in a canal near Alamgarh village.

As the Water Resources Department took time to stop water supply and start work to plug the breach, irate farmers parked their vehicles on the highway and disrupted traffic.

The agitating farmers said due to laxity of the authorities, the breach widened to 50-ft and gushing water entered the surrounding fields and orchards. The blockade was lifted in the evening after Tehsildar Jaspal Singh Brar reached the spot and assured to get the plugging work started by Tuesday. He said a detailed report for compensation would be submitted to the administration. —OC