BADIN: Dist council wants end to water rotation plan
By Our Correspondent
BADIN, Aug 11: The district council, in its Monday's meeting chaired by Advocate Mohammad Essa Mallah, unanimously demanded to suspend the water rotation programme and end the artificial shortage of water prevalent in the district.
Mohammad Khan Chang pointed out that farmers having lands in the tail of waterways facing water shortage for the last five years were on the verge of starvation. Fida Hussain Mandhro and Mir Hasan Panhwar asserted that water rotation programme was never adopted in the Abkalani season as paddy crops suffered if water was not supplied regularly.
They claimed that the irrigation system had suffered a setback after being taken over by the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority, and added that farmers were suffering because of differences between the SIDA and irrigation officials.
Members also demanded that the health EDO and the Model police station SHO should be transferred. Woman councillor Dr Najma Junejo pointed out that emergency had been declared in the district following an official forecast of heavy rains and strong winds but the council was not prepared to debate the issue. She demanded that council members should be briefed on the weather situation as well as precautionary measures, if any, taken by the government.
APPEAL: Mubarak Soomro, a farmer of Deh Kerandi village, Badin taluka, has demanded that the provincial government should have his land cleared of illegal encroachment by an influential.
At a press conference here on Monday, he said that a small area of land owned by his father, and entered in the record of the revenue department, had been encroached upon by an influential landowner and his son. He was not even allowed to enter his own land by the encroachers who were enjoying its fruits.
MPA: Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Poonjo Bheel has said that interests of minority people are safer in Pakistan than in India.
