HYDERABAD, May 28: Member National Assembly from Kotri, Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur has demanded that a new bridge should be constructed on the Indus River at Kotri.

In pre-budget proposals communicated to the prime minister, Mr Talpur said that an overhead bridge should be constructed at the telegraph railway crossing and steps should be taken to rehabilitate the Manchhar lake.

He said that the Kotri railway bridge had withstood vagaries of time for 100 years and it had outlived its age.

The PPP leader demanded that measures should be taken to protect the KB Feeder against industrial and municipal effluent because the canal supplied drinking water to Karachi.

He said that due to discharge of industrial and municipal waste in the KB Feeder, its waters had become poisonous and the people Thatta and Karachi were suffering from many waterborne diseases.

He said that the polluted water was also harming lands.

He also took strong exception to the sale of 429 acre land of Petaro Jagir deh to the Petaro Cadet College.

He said that why the Sindh chief minister was trying to displace Sindhis from Petaro when he was opposing the demolition of Sindhi villages in Karachi.