BADIN, June 20: Hundreds of the farmers from different villages of Shaheed Fazal Rahu taluka on Wednesday protested against the drainage authorities for allegedly allowing the contractors to misappropriate huge amount in conducting desilting work at the Leghari Drain.

The farmers gathered at Mulla Hussain village, some 43 kilometres from here, and disallowed to take the excavating machinery out of the district limits.

They were raising slogans against drainage officials and contractors for carrying the desilting work of the Leghari Drain not as per specification and leaving the work halfway.

The World Bank-funded work of desilting of 41 kilometres long Leghari Drain included construction of protective embankments at the drain and laying pipes at heads of field drains.

Talking to this scribe, Sohrab Khaskheli and other growers alleged that after carrying the desilting work over 11 kilometres, the contractors suspended it.

They alleged that the contractors neither constructed protective embankments properly nor they carried out work of excavation according to the specifications.

Earlier on Tuesday, the activists of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party staged a protest rally and stopped the excavators machinery from being moved out of the district.