MIRPURKHAS: Scores of youths staged a demonstration outside local press club here on Saturday in protest against closure of pathways in dozens of villages due to flawed design of LBOD drains project.

The protesters led by Ali Hassan Leghari, Ravi Shankar, Raza Leghad and Dodo Panhwar, who staged the demo under the banner of Climate StHke Sindh, told media persons that the government had acquired foreign funds purportedly for supporting farmers and villagers to help them combat climate change effects but the funds had not yet reached them.

They expressed the fear the funds might be misappropdated. During removal of illegal encroachments from LBOD drains and government lands many pathways in several villages were deliberately closed by creating hurdles, which se Hously inconvenienced the villagers, they said.

They demanded higher authodties ensure financial help of the affected farmers as their crops had been destroyed by climate change effects, and ensure opening the closed pathways.