LARKANA, June 27: The district council’s Friday’s session began with boycott staged by women councillors over being neglected in budgetary allocations and ended on the complaints by the members that several of them had still not been provided complete copies of the district government budget 2003-4.

The women councillors, at the outset of the district council session, staged a walkout in protest over what they called meagre allocations for development works in their constituencies.

Led by Khursheed Khatyan, the women councillors later joined the proceedings after some members requested them to do so and submit their proposals.

It was followed by the presenting of a report on the budget by Badar Abbasi, Nazim, union council-11, on behalf of chairman of the committee constituted to review the budget.

The committee proposed that Rs3,060,000 should be earmarked for undertaking development works in the areas of the women councillors and Rs1,060,000 for development works in the areas of labour and minority members of the council.

The committee report stated that a meagre amount was earmarked for Darluaman and recommended to enhance it.