MIRPURKHAS, May 9: Committees comprising elected representatives will be formed at the sub-divisional level to check watercourses, stop water theft and end water shortage. This was decided at a meeting of district council Mirpurkhas here on Tuesday which was presided over by naib nazim Zafar Ahmed Kamali.

Mr Kamali asked the director of Nara Canal Area Water Board to ensure supply of irrigation and drinking water to tail-end growers and to parts of the city.

Members including A. D. Lakho, Zafarullah Talpur, Javed Iqbal, Wali Mohammad Inqalabi, Mohammad Aslam Kaimkhani, Ali Mardan Shah, Imtiaz Panhwar, Yar Mohammad Baloch, Fatima Baloch and Shamim Jhandeer urged the government to release water into Nara Canal in sufficient quantities as underground water was brackish in the command area of the canal and crops immediately needed water.

They added that there was shortage of water in the Nara Canal while an area of 80,000 acres of agricultural land in Rohri Canal had been shifted to Nara Canal supply system without increasing its water share.

They demanded to transfer share of water of these lands and remove all illegal lift machines from both sides of the Nara.