DADU, June 13: Affected growers of Kutcha area of Kotri taluka on Thursday complained to journalists during their visit of the Right Bank Outfall Drain site in Deh Bhacha that 13 small growers had not been paid land compensation.

The affected growers, Haji Ramzan Chohan, Mohammad Ayub Chohan, Ali Nawaz and Syed Sajid Hussain Shah said that the RBOD officers were using 50 acres of their land for the RBOD project. They said that the affected farmers had provided documents of their lands to the land acquisition officer but he was not paying them land compensation.

They said that the land was granted to the inhabitants of Kutcha area of Deh Bhacha by the government in 1972 and the growers were paying Dhal and other taxes and receipts were available with them.

Land compensation officer Ahmed Javed Qazi told journalists that the RBOD officers were not digging the drain on the land of the complaining growers.

He said that the land used for the RBOD project was a government land and had been occupied by farmers.

He said that his staff and revenue staff had surveyed the occupied lands tried to convince the people about real position.

He said that he had arranged a meeting on June 18 in the office of the deputy district officer, revenue, Kotri.

He said that the Mukhtiarkar, Kotri, Mukhtiarkar, estate, and DDO, revenue, would attend the meeting to verify the record of Deh Bhacha and solve the problem of the land compensation.