NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 10: Tail-end growers of Chanari minor staged a sit-in against acute shortage of water in their minor on Tuesday. Led by Faiz Muhammad Dahri, Afsar Dahri, Ghulam Mustafa Dahri and Ghulam Muhammad Dahri, they staged a sit-in on Chanari minor-end near Masurgi wah.

They said that 1500 acres of their agriculture land at the tail-end could not be cultivated due to acute shortage of water.

They further said that the Chanari minor begins from Sada Wah, where Darya Khan Mari was flowing in full swing but the irrigation staff was selling water and depriving the tail-enders of their right.

While appealing to the Sindh chief minister to pay surprise visit to the minor and personally take stock of the situation, they regretted that the executive engineer Nusrat division refused to meet the growers’ delegation when they visited Nawabshah to redress their grievance.

The growers said that they cannot irrigate their land through tube-wells as underground water was brackish.