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Cotton sowing, mango crop hit by water shortage
MIRPURKHAS, April 19:
A shortage of water in the Nara Canal for the last
15 days has affected cotton sowing and mango
orchards. According to a survey conducted by this
correspondent , water supply to over 100
distributaries has been suspended by the
irrigation department under a water rotation
programme.
Though the supply of water in the canal has
increased from 3,000 to 7,000 cusecs but the
growers have not benefited from it due to
mismanagement by the irrigation officials.
The Growers Association taluka office-bearers,
Moosa Mahar and Shamsuddin Shaikh, said that over
500 mango orchards faced an acute shortage of
water. They said that a large quantity of unripe
mango had dropped from the trees as a result of
the water shortage, causing loss to the farmers.
They said that the cotton sowing was delayed and
growers were compelled to sow it on a less area.
DEMO: Residents of Sonal Bah village Chhachhro
taluka, Tharparkar district, held a demonstration
outside the press club here on Sunday against the
occupation of their houses and land.
They carried banners and placards inscribed with
different slogans against the former MPA
Inayatullah Rahimoon, Seth Siraj Soomro and his
henchmen. They alleged that their houses were
occupied by the land mafia with the support of
local administration.
They said that political leaders and elected
representatives of their area were not taking
notice of their plight as their families lived
under the open sky. They urged the Sindh governor
and chief minister to rehabilitate them.
Bhagwandas advocate, Akro Bheel, Qasim, Hayat,
Misri Bheel and others also observed a token
hunger strike.
ENQUIRY: DEO (elementary) Ibrahim Kumbhar and
Government Poly- technical College Principal A.L.
Juggro have established that the former ADEO
elementary (women) of Kot Ghulam Mohammad taluka
is responsible for misappropriation of Rs300,000
in the scholarships of girl students.
They found during an inquiry ordered by the EDO,
education, that the official received illegal fees
from students of VI, VII and VIII for three years
when she was headmistress of a girls middle
school. She was suspended in 1999 following the
corruption charges.
Later, she deposited Rs200,000 in the government
account. The ADOE was later on reinstated. The
sources said that she had also made 14 fake
appointments of employees and they were shown to
have been transferred and posted in the Kot Ghulam
Mohammad sub-division.
The DAWN
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