HYDERABAD, Nov 19: Sindh Chamber of Agriculture president Qamaruzzaman Shah has said that the RBOD project, is as dangerous for Sindh as the LBOD.

He said that if corrective measures were not adopted, the Manchhar lake and other sweet water lakes and ponds would be destroyed.

Speaking at a meeting of the chamber held here on Sunday, he said that if any breach occurred in the RBOD, Thatta and Ghora Bari would be wiped out.

He urged the government not to ignore concerns being expressed by people and to adopt corrective measures before it was too late.

He said that when the LBOD project was started, the chamber had expressed its reservations to successive governments right from the government of Mohammad Khan

Junejo to Benazir Bhutto, but nobody paid any attention to the chamber's voice of dissent.

He said that the chamber had made it clear that huge funds that were spent on the LBOD would go down the drain and the ese fears had been proved true.

Mr Shah said that even the World Bank had accepted that huge losses had occurred due to the wrong planning of LBOD and the consultants should be made to account for the losses.

He said that till date the government had not filed any claim against the consultants.

The meeting noted that despite tall claims by the government, the dealers of DAP and phosphate fertilisers in Thatta and Sujawal were selling fertilisers in black market.

He said that the two main dealers were charging Rs950 per bag against its fixed price of Rs816 per bag.

It said that even the EDO agriculture appeared completely helpless before these dealers.

The meeting demanded that the Sindh government should seal the stores of the two big dealers of Thatta district.

Mir Murad Ali Talpur, Anwar Bachani, Shahzad Shah, Aijaz Nabi Shah and Mir Imdad Ali were present on the occasion.