BADIN, Aug 27: The Sindh government has released Rs2.5 million for purchasing rations and also dispatched a sufficient quantity of relief goods, including 200,000kg flour and 50,000kg of lentils, for the rain-affected people of Badin district.

The chairman, District Relief Committee, Syed Ali Bux Shah, said this while talking to newsmen on Wednesday.

He said 14 trucks loaded with relief goods had been sent to the rain-affected areas on Wednesday.

He said that the work to assess losses of crops was also progressing as 110 survey teams had been engaged to complete the task.

He visited relief camps at Nindo Shehar.

On this occasion, the Nazim, Union Council Nindo Shehar, Noor Mohammad Farooqui, demanded that uncooked food be supplied to the people in the relief camps at Nindo Shehar.

Mr Shah directed the authorities concerned to distribute uncooked food for a week.

LANDLORD HARASSING VILLAGERS: Several villagers, including A. Dino Jamali, Bilal, Akbar, Mohammad Hashim and Ali Mohammad Jamali, belonging to the flooded villages of Haji Gul Muhammad Jamali and Sain Bux Jamali on Wednesday accused a landlord, Sher Jamali, of harassing them saying that he had made their lives miserable.

They told newsmen at the press club that ever since their villages were flooded they were living under the open sky and were making a living by fishing.

They complained that Sher Jamali, claiming to be close to an influential person, brought about a dozen police personnel and took away their fishing nets.

They said that the police, who were under the influence of Sher Jamali, picked up the villagers of several villages.

They demanded that the prime minister and district administration provide them justice as soon as possible.