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| December 23, 2005 | Friday | Ziqa’ad 20, 1426 |
Closure of sugar mills criticized
MIRPURKHAS, Dec 22: A meeting held under the banner of Abadgar Action Committee of Sindhri and Mirpurkhas on Thursday reviewed strategy to take control of the Mirpurkhas sugar mill. The meeting was attended by Sindhri Taluka Nazim Sarfaraz Junejo, Javed Junejo, Mumtaz Shah, Imtiaz Ali Panhwar, Maher Ali Lashari, Syed Ghulam Mohammad Shah alias Babu Shah, Mansoor Cheema and Chaudhry Arif.
The meeting reviewed the condition of sugarcane crop and condemned the closure of sugar mills.
It decided to hold a meeting of all sugarcane growers on December 23 for preparing their plan for staging protest demonstrations on December 24 outside the Mirpurkhas sugar mill.
It appealed to cane growers to participate in large numbers to press management of the mill to accept genuine demands of growers.
WATERCOURSES: Around 29,000 cusec of water would be saved on account of lining of watercourses in Sindh under National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses.
This was stated by the Executive District Officer Agriculture, Mirpurkhas, Riaz Ahmed Dayo, while talking to newsmen on Thursday.
He said that lining of 12 watercourses in the district had been completed and 135 watercourses would be lined by June next year.
He said that initially two parallel programmes of improvement of watercourses were being executed in Sindh including NPIW of federal government and a project of On-farm Water Management Project.
He added that a total number of 29,000 watercourses would be lined in Sindh during four years. He said that under Sindh On-Farm Water Management Project, funded by World Bank, 4,000 watercourses would be lined in Sindh.
He further said that recently the project of Sindh On-farm Water Management Project was merged in the NPIW adding that 20 watercourses would be completed by December 31 while technical sections of 100 watercourses were approved.
About Mirpurkhas, the EDO said of 2000 water courses in the district, 400 have already been lined while work on 1600 would be completed under NPIW. He said that five field teams are set-up in district with a target of 25 watercourses’ lining which would yield good results. He said that the project would be completed by December 2008 if continued uninterrupted. He said that he was making efforts to create awareness among the growers about the project. He asked them to come forward to register their watercourses for lining.
REMAND: The Judicial Magistrate-II, Mirpurkhas on Thursday remanded three alleged robbers to police custody for four days. They were arrested by the Old Mirpur police with the help of area people from a sugarcane field. Ghulam Hussain Malik, Ayaz Qureshi and Aamir Qureshi hired a rickshaw and when it reached near the Ratanabad check post, they stopped it and looted Rs390 from the driver, Javed Khaskheli. They also deprived him of his rickshaw at gunpoint and escaped. The rickshaw driver informed the police who chased the robbers, ultimately arresting them from the sugarcane field with the help of the area people. The Old Mirpur police lodged a case under section 392, 342, 34 PPC and 13/3 Hudood Ordinance on the complaint of rickshaw driver against the accused.
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