SANGHAR, April 2: A large number of women and children staged a demonstration on Wednesday in protest against taluka municipal administration’s failure to supply them drinking water.

The protesters from different localities of the city complained that they had not received even a drop of water for a whole week and claimed that some areas were getting water every day.

They said that they tried to meet Taluka Nazim Saeed Khan Nizamani to apprise him of their problem but remained absent from office whenever they went to his office. The protesters demanded removal of TMO, accusing him of threatening them with dire consequences if they staged protest against shortage of water.

DIST COUNCIL: Members of district council on Wednesday demanded complete ban on chopping down trees in Khori forest near Khipro and said that the forest, which was spread over 22,000 acres, had now shrunk to mere 4,000 acres due to unabated practice of chopping down trees.

Members Umer Khan, Ismail Dars, Ms Tahira Khatoon, Hassan Khaskheli and Faqir Noor Hussain alleged that land mafia had occupied the forest land in connivance with Forest Department.

They said that trees worth millions of rupees were chopped and sold in the market while a plantation nursery in Sinjhoro, which was supposed to provide new nurseries for the forest, was in a shambles.

They said that tree chopping in Chotiaryoon and at the head of Jamrao Canal along Nara Canal had turned into a big business.