MIRPURKHAS: Irregularities in canal lining work alleged
By Our Correspondent
MIRPURKHAS, Sept 6: Farmers Organisations’ Council chairman Javed Junejo has alleged that irrigation officials with the help of Sida officials have misappropriated millions of rupees and committed irregularities during the improvement and rehabilitation work on different offshoots of Nara Canal.
Talking to journalists, Mr Junejo alleged that black-listed contractors had been awarded contracts to line and improve watercourses, resulting into substandard work and wastage of precious funds obtained from donor agencies.
He said that Rs400 million had been spent on improvement and rehabilitation of Mithrao Canal but it had developed two breaches in a single year.
He said that an artificial shortage of water and rotation programme had been implemented to fail the new system run by farmers’ organisations as a result standing crops had been damaged and growers had suffered huge losses.
He said that the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority Ordinance was not being properly implemented which was causing failure of the new water distribution system.
Mr Junejo alleged that the chairmen of five farmers’ organisations had been suspended to defame the system. He said that diploma-holders had been posted in the irrigation department as executive engineers who were not sincere to run the new system.
KILLED: A youth was murdered after being kidnapped by some unidentified persons here on Thursday.
Farhan Memon 23, son of Abdul Sattar Memon, resident of Gulshan-i-Haider colony has been missing since last two days and his parents and relatives searching for him and informed the police about his disappearance.
However, his body, bearing torture marks, was recovered from the agriculture land of Khuda Dino Shah, near Lashkar Shah Graveyard in taluka Hussain Bux Mari.
Police shifted the body to Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas for autopsy.
Abdul Sattar Memon, father of the youth, and an employee at revenue office of Hesco Mirpurkhas, told reporters that he had received a letter for ransom a day back from unidentified kidnappers, demanding Rs700,000 for his release.
