MITHI, May 29: Thousands of people, who had shifted from various villages of Tharparkar district to barrage areas in search of sustenance, are facing difficulties because of shortage of transport. Tharis leave their villages due to drought-like condition prevailing in the sand-swept Thar desert and work as sharecroppers and ranchmen at farms in Hyderabad, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Nawabshah districts.

Scores of families on way to their native villages are waiting for transport in Naokot and Mithi towns.

They told Dawn on Sunday that they had been lying under open sky for the last couple of days but were not able to arrange transport for their villages.