BADIN, March 11: The Sindh Abadgar Board has threatened to launch a movement against sugarmill owners if they failed to ensure payment of quality premium to growers in two months.

The SAB president Majeed Nizamani while speaking at Bachal Nizamani village Matli taluka on Thursday said the mill owners denied payment of quality premium to growers in the province. He said if this attitude continued towards the sugarcane growers the sugar industry would be destroyed.

Mr Nizamani expressed his concern over the attitude of sugar mills who instead paying genuine amount to the growers had approached the court of law to push the growers into financial losses. Former MPA Khaliq Soomro said mill owners and capitalists had pushed can growers to face difficulties.

Former MNA Sattar Sarewal said the prime minister had announced every possible facility to the calamity hit areas, but recovery of abiyana continued by force in Badin.

RALLY: Power consumers staged a rally against Hesco for unscheduled loadsheding in the town. Scores of the residents of Gharibabad and other localities observed a sit-in at the main Kazia canal chowk. They were raising slogans against Hesco officials and accusing them for unnecessary shutdown.