DADU (February 27 2004): Regional Director, Reformer Development Organisation (RDO) Sayed Shafqat Ali Shah has said that his organisation is arranging workshops through NGOs to teach and train agriculturists and "haris" (growers) in better utilisation of land and attainment of higher production.

He was addressing a meeting of District Council here on Wednesday which was presided over by the District Naib Nazim Dr Zahid Hussain Jatoi.

Director RDO reminded that the country's agriculture had not developed despite passage of 56 years since independence which necessitated provision of training in modern techniques to the farming community, he pointed out.

Addressing the Council meeting District Naib Nazim said he had discussed the matter of allocation of Rs five lakh (0.5 million) for the Nazim of every Union Council (UC) with District Nazim and District Co-ordination Officer (DCO) but they did not agree.

The Nazima of UC Jamshoro complained that though the Council had passed various resolutions no visible relief had been provided to the public so far.

She reminded the House it has been in existence for the last 30 months now.

Some Nazims boycotted the meeting over information that the proposal to allocate Rs five lakh to each UC Nazim had not been accepted.

Nazim Bahawalpur Saeed Jamali maintained that bureaucracy wanted to make local government system unsuccessful.

Courtesy Business Recorder