HYDERABAD, March 7: Sindh Irrigation and Power Minister Nadir Akmal Leghari on Tuesday said that although irrigation reforms process was slow but in the next three months radical changes would be witnessed.

He said that a participatory management system was in the interest of Sindh and it would be encouraged.

He was speaking to journalists in the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.

He said that after the reforms, the irrigation department would play the role of a facilitator instead of dictating terms as irrigation system would be streamlined.

Mr Leghari said that there was a proposal to hold elections of farmers’ organizations to ensure participation of growers in tail-end areas. He said that now funds for maintenance and repairs were being utilized.

“We have sent booklet of the M&R to various agencies like the NAB, Transparency International and the chief minister’s inspection team to go through it from their own point of view”, he said.

“Ever since I took over, the situation is being reversed and we are moving forward,” claimed the minister and added that various schemes were under discussion for rehabilitation of the system.