{"id":84348,"date":"2025-08-29T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=84348"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:22:55","slug":"sindh-agricultural-department-cancels-staff-leave-over-flood-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-agricultural-department-cancels-staff-leave-over-flood-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh Agricultural Department cancels staff leave over flood threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Sindh Agriculture Department has cancelled all <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fatal-accident-in-othal-leaves-nine-dead-others-injured\/\">leave<\/a> for officers and staff amid the flood threat.<\/p>\n<p>Rain emergency cells have been established in each province, and a focal person has also been appointed, according to Sindh <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/foreign-minister-ishaq-dar-heads-to-bangladesh-for-two-day-visit\/\">Agricultural Minister<\/a> Sardar Muhammad Bux Maher.<\/p>\n<p>He directed officials to remain on duty in all districts, including Larkana, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, and Shaheed Benazirabad, while daily reports will be submitted to Agriculture Secretary Muhammad Zaman Narejo.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Agriculture Department&#8217;s engineering section have been directed to maintain bulldozers and machinery on standby, assuring a rapid delivery of equipment to district administrations when needed.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency plan would be implemented under the supervision of the DG Agriculture, Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Muhammad Bux Maher went on to say that authorities must work closely with the PDMA and other organizations, adding that flood-hit farmers in Sindh will receive urgent support.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that climate change has exacerbated flood threats in the country, making preparedness critical.<\/p>\n<p>The Sindh Chief Minister has also appointed ministers to work on the left and right banks of the rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency plans will remain in place to enable a timely response for farmers in the event of a calamity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Sindh Agriculture Department has cancelled all leave for officers and staff amid the flood threat. Rain emergency cells have been established in each province, and a focal person has also been appointed, according to Sindh Agricultural Minister Sardar Muhammad Bux Maher. He directed officials to remain on duty in all districts, including Larkana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":84350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84351,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84348\/revisions\/84351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}