DADU, Sept 30: The Dadu district council at its session here on Tuesday demanded that the irrigation department should remove silt from the waterways of the district.

It also passed a unanimous resolution against the irrigation officials who had registered water theft cases against a union council Nazim and 250 other growers.

Through a resolution, it demanded that the case should be withdrawn and the sub-engineer, Phakka waterway, Mohammad Khan Channa be suspended.

The emergency session of the council was called after the registration of the case against Yar Mohammad Kalhoro UC Nazim Imam Ali Shah and 250 others.

Mounder UC Nazim Sikandar Shahani, tabling the resolution, said that the irrigation officials were selling water to influential farmers and when the small growers of the Phakka waterway demanded their share, the irrigation officials lodged a concocted case against them and the UC Nazim who supported their cause.

The council unanimously passed the resolution and also sent a letter to the Sindh secretary irrigation in this regard.

Nazim, Dadu-III UC, Nisar Ahmed Shaikh, tabling another resolution, said that desilting programme should be carried out in the waterways originating from Dadu and Johi canals and water shortage in them be ended.

The resolution was also unanimously passed by the council members who demanded of the government to release emergency funds for desilting programme in the waterways of Dadu district.

Nazim, Khudabad UC, Mohammad Paryal Birhamani, tabled the third resolution and said that Nazims should conduct raids at waterways with irrigation officials and tempered watercourses should be sealed. The resolution was also passed by the council members.

Speaking on the occasion, executive engineer, irrigation, Dadu, Habibullah Kabooro, said that the sub-engineer would be suspended, the desilting programme carried out and the water shortage ended in a week.

SEMINAR: People’s Party Parliamentarian MNA Rafiq Ahmed Jamali has said that only those politicians are supporting the Kalabagh dam and greater Thal canal who have no regard for the interests of Sindh.

He was speaking at a seminar on the canal and dam issue in Khairpur Nathan Shah on Tuesday, which was organized by the Jamiat Tuleba-i-Islam.

He said that agricultural sector of Sindh was already suffering due to shortage of water and if the water projects were constructed, the fertile land of the province would be rendered barren.

Speaking on the occasion, district JTI president Ghulamullah Chandio said that the Sindh people would continue their struggle against the controversial projects.