KHAIRPUR, Dec 7: The members of the district council, Khairpur, lashed out at the officials of the revenue department for their failure to maintain the record. While debating the move put forth by Ghulam Hyder Mahar, the district council members complained that the mukhtiarkars and tapedars do not specify the names of women while preparing record of agricultural lands and other property.

The members demanded that revenue department should be directed to inform the concerned UC nazims while making any changes in the record of rights of the agricultural land or other property.

Ghazala Siyal, Abdul Khaliq Veesar and others said that a lot of irregularities were being committed in the revenue department, and some times people even do not know that their records had been changed. They added that the revenue officials even declare alive people as dead in the record.

Raising the point, Naik Mohammad Markhand said that in rural areas, power outage for seven to eight hours had become a routine while meter readers do not take proper reading due to which detection bills are handed over to the consumers.

The members alleged that the Hesco officials create hardship for the consumers while sanctioning meters.

They added that influential people use air-conditioners by hooking up connections through direct lines due to which line losses occur.

They added that consumers complain of power fluctuation as a result of which many household equipments get damaged.

They said that a number of Scarp tube-wells were almost in-operational, as a result the growers had to install private tube-wells for cultivation.