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MULTAN, Aug 13: Tenants in the Punjab are willing to carry on research being under way on the lands under their tenancies even if the government gives them the proprietary rights.
According to a Press statement issued here on Tuesday, Anjuman Mazareen Punjab (AMP) president Chaudhry Abdul Jabbar said tenants of the 21 state-run farms could work with the government to bolster the rural economy.
He, however, regretted that the government was reluctant to give ownership rights to tenants over their respective tenancy lands. He said the AMP rejected the claims made by government officials that tenants’ movement for ownership rights had caused massive losses to the agriculture sector.
Citing the experience of Hashtnagar, NWFP, he said the productivity and marketing prowess had risen considerably there since the tenants had secured ownerships.
He claimed the PSC and the Khanewal district administration had damaged both cotton and wheat crops sown at the Peerowal farms by suspending the irrigation water supply. “The estimated loss to the Peerowal tenants has been calculated at Rs70 million,” he added.
SETTLED: The local city tehsil municipal administration and the low-grade workers of the Multan Municipal Corporation (MMC) on Tuesday settled their differences.
The tehsil administration and MMC workers were at loggerheads over the issue of continuous delay in the payment of latter’s salaries since the introduction of the devolution plan.
On Monday last, the CBA union of the corporation workers had decided to observe Aug 14 as ‘the day of mourning’ in protest against the delay in the payment of salaries.
