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KHAIRPUR, April 29: The growers of Ahmedpur, Kingri Taluka, staged a protest demonstration and took out a rally against the water shortage on Sunday.
Talking to newsmen their representatives said that banana crops, standing over thousands of acres, had been completely destroyed while several vegetables, dates, and mangoes had been badly hit due to the shortage of water.
They alleged that irrigation officials were selling water to the influential people of the area.
They said that water to at least 10 waterways including Ahmedpur Minor, Lalan Wah, Chandia Wah, Mahesar Minor, and Bodly Minor was not being supplied to since at least a month.
They appealed to the higher authorities concerned to restart supplying water to these waterways.
The growers are compelled to buy tube wells to irrigate their lands, which proves too costly for them.
DEMO AGAINST HESCO: At least 50 villagers staged a sit-in and observed token hunger strike against the Hesco sub-division, Kot Diji, in Bozdar Wada on Monday.
The councillors, Jam Khan Bozdar and Saleem Khan Bozdar, who represented the growers, while talking to newsmen, said that local Hesco officials were responsible for the load-shedding which occurred on a daily basis due to which the electricity of some fifty villages remained cut off for the whole day.
They said that the Hesco officials concerned had given illegal connections to some influential people as a result of which the villagers were suffering.
30 HUTS GUTTED: At least 30 huts were gutted and three people were injured in a fire in the Zafarabad village, near Faiz Ganj, on Sunday night.
