Necessary steps being taken to ensure provision of flour at fixed rate: Punjab CM

• CM said subsidy was being provided through Ehsaas Programme
• Parvez said sale points had also been doubled
• Increase in government wheat quota would reduce prices

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Sunday that all necessary steps were being taken to ensure the provision of flour at fixed rate at provincial and district levels.

According to official sources, the chief minister said that subsidy was being provided to common men through Ehsaas Programme so that people of urban and rural areas could be facilitated.

He said the Punjab government was ensuring provision of inexpensive flour to deserving people through Ehsaas Programme.

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Entry in Ehsaas Programme could be made through CNIC to get targeted subsidy on flour, he said and added that daily official quota of flour had been doubled.

Parvez Elahi said that sale points had also been doubled across the province.

He said that 1,840,000 bags of 10 kg flour would be available on daily basis in Punjab at government fixed rate.

Ch Parvez Elahi said that from tomorrow 26,000 tonnes of wheat would be released to flour mills more than their demand.

Increase in government wheat quota would reduce prices of private wheat and flour reasonably, he added.

Once again wheat worth millions of rupees had gone missing from public godowns in Sindh, Bol News had reported on December 1.

A new scandal of the Sindh Food Department had surfaced. More than 13,000 metric tonnes wheat worth more than Rs0.7 billion had gone missing from eight public godowns in Noshero Feroze.

The district food controller Noshero Feroze had sent a report to the secretary food department requesting him to form a committee for investigation into the incident.