A large number of farmers celebrated the irrigation water supply after a decade's suspension to 30 villages situated at Moongi distributary of lower Gogera branch canal near Gojra on Thursday. Farmers arranged a reception for DCO Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf and irrigation department officials at the Moongi rest house. Addressing the gathering, the DCO said that 60 outlets of this distributary had either been broken or closed on account of water theft and silt. The DCO said that was the reason that farmers of these villages had to abandon cultivation because water was not reaching there for the last 10 years. He said when farmers informed him that people were leaving villages and doing jobs to earn the crust, he contacted PIDA officials, the irrigation department staff and representatives of growers for addressing the problem. After one-month of hard work, he said, the water supply was resumed following rebuilding of all the outlets, desilting of the minor canal and strictly checking of water theft by influential landlords. Faisalabad irrigation chief executive Chaudhry Muhammad Hussain, PIDA vice-chairman Arif Zahid, technical manager Muhammad Khalid, Lower Gogera Canal XEN Hafiz Naeem Khan and Farmers Organisation president Munir Shikari were also present. SIT-IN: Angry sanitary staff of the Kamalia TMA on Thursday placed the dead body of their retired colleague outside the tehsil nazim office and staged a sit-in for not releasing dues of the ailing colleague that caused his death. The protesters told reporters their Binyameen Masih had repeatedly been requesting the TMA officials to pay his outstanding dues so that he could utilize them on his treatment, but to no avail. They later dispersed when tehsil nazim Chaudhry Mahmood Jat assured them that action would be taken against responsible officials.