NAWABSHAH: Officials disturbing water rotation plan
By Our Correspondent
NAWABSHAH, May 19: The Sindh secretary, Irrigation, Mir Mohammad Parhiar, has said that engineers and SDOs of the irrigation department were involved in disrupting the rotation programme due to which growers were facing problems regarding water shortage.
He was talking to a selected gathering of growers in an open kutchery held here on Sunday.
He said that the irrigation department was passing through a bad phase since the last 35 years.
The irrigation secretary said that he had decided to form committees of growers to solve their problems.
Mr Parhiar said that the government had approved Rs22 billion for remodelling of the irrigation system.
He said that he would conduct an enquiry about the misuse of funds as no such enquiry had been carried out earlier by the department.
The district Nazim, Ms Faryal Talpur, demanded the secretary, Irrigation for supplying water from the Rohri Canal.
The growers of Nawabshah were not allowed to speak about their problems in the open kutchery whose venue had been changed thrice.
Our Naushahro Feroze correspondent adds: Growers complained about an acute shortage of water to the provincial secretary, Irrigation, Mir M. Parhiar, during an open kutchery on Sunday.
Responding to the complaint regarding the shortage of water, Mr Parhiar expressed his inability to end the shortage of water until and unless the water supply was not increased.
The growers also complained that there was theft of irrigation water, which was not possible without the connivance of irrigation officials.
The growers complained that the officials involved in the theft were not worried because no action had ever been taken against them.
A grower, Altaf Channar, from Kandiaro complained that there had been no water in the Lal Minor and the Siyalpur distributary since the last six months.
The secretary told him to be patient for another 15 days by which time he was likely to get some water.
