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Carved out of the Muzaffargarh district in 1982, Layyah is one of the least industrialised regions of Punjab and derives its name from wild fuelwood known as Layyan in the local diction.
Lying between the mighty Indus and Chenab rivers in Sindh Sagar Doab, it contains three agro-ecological zones creek and low lands in the west that are inundated by floods by Indus, the irrigated tract of Thal’s fertile plains appropriate for growing wheat, rice and sugarcane, and the sandy Thal desert suitable mainly for gram (chickpea) crop.
With a population of 1.824 million as per the 2017 census, the total cultivated area in the district is over 1.12m acres, of which 0.83m acres are irrigated and 0.18m acres are barani (rain-fed) area. There are over 0.539m acres of uncultivated land, around 60,000 acres of culturable waste and about 0.5m acres of unculturable land.
IRSA asks WAPDA to appoint water inspectors at nine sites
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June 2, 2021
LAHORE: The Indus River System Authority (IRSA), apex river water regulatory body having representation of all provinces, has asked the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to appoint water inspectors at nine barrages in Punjab and Sindh for monitoring flows.
The move to appoint technical inspectors was pushed in the meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Water Resources, which was held on May 24, 2021 under the chairmanship of Nawab Muhammad Yousuf Talpur, Pakistan Peoples’ Party MNA from NA-220 (Umerkot).
According to a memorandum issued by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources on May 27, 2021, the 20-member standing committee showed multi-partisan consensus over third-party monitoring of water distribution among provinces.