BADIN, Sept 2: People affected by breaches in the Left Bank Outfall Drain and members of the Save Coast Action Committee on Saturday staged a sit-in on the Shah Latif road.

They demanded that the World Bank should pay compensation of losses to the affected people of Badin.

Khadim Talpur, Natho Lund and Dr Akash Ansari led the protestors.

They called for full compensation and rehabilitation of damage caused during the 2003 year to the people of Badin district.

They demanded that the government should reclaim 25 million acres land which was damaged by the deadly drain.

They also called for construction of dykes to save fertile lands from the advancing Arabian Sea.

They demanded that the LBOD should be diverted to Dhoro Puran drain.

They said that the World Bank was responsible for suffering of coastal people because it played an important role in funding and legitimising the project.

They called for rehabilitation of affected communities and stoppage of all upstream drain works.

The water level in the LBOD has increased to the dangerous level following the release of drain water from other districts in the upstream.