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LARKANA, March 15: The Sindh government has allocated Rs21.116million to undertaking restoration and strengthening of banks of the Khirthar canal from RD-0 to RD-180 during the current financial year.
Sources in the district government told this correspondent on Monday that the updating project would help assist in supplying irrigation water at tail-end areas in Shikarpur, Larkana, Qamber-Shahdadkot districts and some areas of Balochistan province.
The farmers will benefit after the scheme was completed, the sources said.
The government has also approved an amount of Rs14.074 million for revamping and strengthening two sides of the Saifullah Magsi branch from RD-0 to RD 145 in order to bring under cultivation maximum acres of land.
Under the revamping programme of irrigation channels the water flow would be improved in Shahdadkot and Qubo Saeed Khan talukas.
By getting due share of irrigation water per acre yield could be increased that would give flip to agriculture economy.
SANGAT: The Barani Mughiri branch of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat on Monday held a function marking 123rd death anniversary of Karl Marx.
Ghulam Hussain Bughio presided over the function.
Karim Baloch, Nisar Mughiri, Punhal and Abdul Rehman spoke about Marxism that had caused revolutions in many countries.
They paid tributes to Marx and said that he had given a new philosophy to the world.
