SUKKUR, July 3: Hundreds of growers from Ahmedpur and Adam Khan Khoso villages, Jacobabad district, staged a demonstration against the area irrigation officials outside the Jacobabad Press Club on Tuesday.

The protesters, led by Ahmedpur Union Council Nazim Gulam Qadir Khoso and PPP (SB) chief organizer Nadeem Qureshi, set on fire the effigy of the chief engineer of Guddu Barrage.

They told newsmen that about 40,000 acres of the two villages were still without water and no crop was sown there.

They said there was acute shortage of water in the Noor Wah, which irrigate these lands, and no water was available at the tail-end.

They deplored that the lands of the influential people in the area, including the lands of the Sindh governor and of former speaker of the National Assembly, Elahi Baksh Soomro, were getting water but the poor people were facing hardships and were starving due to the non-supply of water to their lands.

They alleged that the senior officials of the irrigation department were responsible for the injudicious distribution of water.

Meanwhile, growers from Salehpat, Rohri, and Pano Aqil, staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday in front of the Sukkur Press Club against revenue officials, who were forcibly collecting revenue from calamity hit-areas, Salehpat and Pano Aqil.