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Civil society and women rights activsits have been showing their concerns over the delay in approving the rules of business of the Sindh Water Management Bill, 2018, and said that the provincial.
Manoj GenaniPublished 22 Jan, 2021 07:52pm
This week, a landmark amendment passed by the Sindh province’s legislative assembly recognised for the first time the role of women farmers in water management. The Sindh Water Management (Amendment) Bill, 2018 now guarantees women’s representation in around 45,000 water course associations, over 350 farmer organisations, and 14 area water boards in the province. It has been a long battle to create an historic change.
Dhani Bux, a farmer and advocate for efficient water management in his district Badin, was one of many men demanding a share of water in the ‘tail-end areas’ of the Sindh province. For the last decade, Bux and his fellow farmers have faced a serious scarcity of water that has turned their fertile lands in Badin and Thatta barren and spurred mass migration. He is the leader of the District Badin Alliance, formed after legislation titled the ‘Sindh Water Management Ordinance’ (SWMO) was passed in 2002 which req
‘Changes in bill to help mainstream women in water resource management’
Karachi
January 19, 2021
Hailing the passage of the amendment in the Sindh Water Management Ordinance Act, women rights activists said that it will increase the women’s role in water resource management and irrigation system in the province.
On January 12, the Sindh Assembly passed the Sindh Water Management (Amendment) Bill, 2018, an amendment bill that aimed to amend certain sections of this legislation in order to provide for the empowerment of women in respect of decision- making as well as for improving their socio-economic development.
Rana Ansar, an MPA belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, took up this amendment to the bill. The Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO) and other civil society organisations had lobbied and carried out advocacy efforts to have this bill passed.
Murad Ali Shah speaks during Tuesday’s session of the house. Online
KARACHI: While Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah blamed the federal government for an acute gas shortage as well as plundering the province’s resources, Energy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh told the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that the province would run out of natural gas in the next 12 years.
Tuesday’s proceedings witnessed uproar and a chaotic situation when Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani did not allow Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Firdous Shamim Naqvi to address the lawmakers after the chief minister gave a hard-hitting policy statement against the federal government on the ongoing gas crisis in the province.