August 09, 2008	Saturday	Sha’aban 6, 1429

LARKANA, Aug 8: MNA Faryal Talpur has asked the officials concerned to immediately stop work on the Right Bank Outfall Drain (RBOD) passing from Qambar and Shahdadkot due to its wrong alignment.

Talking to journalists in Naudero on Friday she said the faulty alignment of the RBOD could pose a threat to both the towns.

“We are trying to find out who had designed the RBOD,” she said while adding that she had asked the RBOD managers to take the advice of the secretary irrigation prior to giving final shape to the alignment.

“We are doing this after the local people had pointed out the flaws and we do not want to face a disaster as had been experienced in the case of the Left Bank Outfall Drain when it started flowing backward,” she said.

Within a month’s time the RBOD constructors would submit a new alignment report with certain changes in it, she said.

The MNA said Shahdadkot was facing a huge problem of brackish water and to address this on urgent basis a water supply scheme had been approved to provide people with sweet water.

Regarding deteriorating condition of Moenjodaro remains, she said a three-member committee comprising Dr N.A. Baloch, Ms Parveen Talpur and an archaeologist had been constituted following the recent damages caused to the relics due to the onslaught of rains.

The committee was tasked to identify the core problems of the site to save it from further damages and restoring its beauty, she said. The committee would also compile suggestions to protect the artifacts from theft, she said and stressed the need for conserving and preserving the remains of Moenjodaro from further crumbling.

Conceding that prolonged electricity outage had badly affected the Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts, she said the superintendent engineer of Hesco’s Larkana circle was given two months to correct the situation or face removal.

She said the condition of Larkana city was pathetic and blamed the sitting taluka nazim for it.She disclosed that nazims of Awam Dost Panel had approached the Local Government Commission against the nazim.