Poor maintenance of irrigation canal '' kavkoul''canal by irrigation department is draining out tones of litres of water every day, which results in scarcity of water for irrigation of agricultural land in Tral area of Pulwama.Villagers said that the canal has developed cracks along its walls which have not been plugged. The seepages are visible at many locations, and there is no control of leakages from the cracks, said locals of Dar Ganie Gund Tral.The said that the canal begins at Gujjarsaran deodarpora Guttangoo Naala, goes across various villages and further towards another Irrigation canal '' laari''which irrigates the land of lorgam and panzoo villages.The residents of various villages including Deedarpora Guttangoo, Dar Ganie Gund, heaven Yangvani, Hadoora, Gadoora, wagad and lorow jageer said, that due to seepage from the walls of' kavkoul' irrigation canal most of our land is waterlogged and we are unable to grow and harvest any kind of seed.They also said, there is complete neglect of repairs to the canal. The walls on both sides of canal are broken at many places leading to leakage through gaps. Neither is the civic administration nor is the irrigation department serious about its maintenance, locals added.The residents also allege that irrigation department has been negligent about curbing the water loss from the canal. For many years the canal has not been repaired.The canal is under irrigation department and we are paying large amount of money every year as a fee to irrigation department, but unfortunately the officials sitting in A. C rooms are not taking our concern seriously and are paying deaf ear to the plight of common masses, said land owners whose agricultural land is around the canal. (PTK)