SUKKUR, July 16: Eleven Nazimeen and five councillors of the Taluka Council, Pano Aqil, boycotted the budget session of the council and staged a demonstration accusing the taluka Nazim of violating prescribed rules for presenting budget.

Talking to newsmen in front of the press club here on Monday, the protesters pointed out that the Nazim, Ali Gul Mehar, had neither taken the council members in confidence nor provided copies of budget to a majority of them.

They termed his action ‘illegal, unconstitutional and undemocratic’. The demonstration was led by the Naib Nazim, Muzaffar Kalwer.

They said they had boycotted the session and conveyed the message to the secretary of Local Governments. A memorandum was also handed over to the DCO, Sukkur, by the protesters demanding an inquiry.

MASTER PLAN: The Sindh government has prepared a master plan for Sukkur, besides a 250-plot housing scheme, spread over ten acres, near the New Bus Terminal.

This was informed at an open kutchery, held jointly by the Sindh secretary for housing and town planning, Ejaz Qazi, and the secretary for agriculture, livestock, and fisheries, Aftab Ahmad Qureshi, at the circuit house here on Tuesday.

The agriculture secretary directed the officials of the agriculture department to cooperate with growers with a view to raise their per acre yield.

He said the government was making efforts to increase the produce so as to make the province self-sufficient in agriculture.

Mr Qureshi said the government would make arrangement to provide loan to growers for developing dairy farms, poultry and fisheries sectors.

He said the illegal possession of government ponds would not be tolerated and warned that strict action would be taken against the encroachers.

Regarding a proposal to grant ponds on three years contract, the agriculture secretary said the matter would be considered and put forward to the Sindh governor for his approval.