Handling Debate On Worsening Irrigation Crisis in Pakistan
The Punjab Assembly during the budget debate on Thursday (June 14, 2012) heard the painful tale of acute shortage of water for irrigation and the dexterity of the bureaucracy to eat up money of the exchequer and suggestions to make the agricultural sector more powerful to strengthen the economy. Midway proceedings of the session with Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan in the chair, PPP Deputy Parliamentary leader Shaukat Basra narrated the pathetic tale of the Bahawanagar farmers who were waiting for water for cotton crops over the last two months but without a drop so far.
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