ADC Larkana inspects cheap flour centres.

LARKANA -- Additional Deputy Commissioner-I Rabia Siyal visited flour selling centers here on Tuesday and instructed the owners to sell wheat flour at government rates so that poor people could be benefited or else, she warned, strict legal action would be taken against the defaulters.

Five centers have been established by the government at various points of the city whereas one center has each been established at Dokri, Bakrani and Ratodero. A 10kg flour bag was sold at Rs650 at the Center for poverty-stricken people which means Rs2600 for 40 kg which was being sold in the open market at Rs4700 per 38 kg bag and those people who were buying a bag previously for their home consumption were purchasing half of the bag due to unprecedented inflation which has broken all previous records.

She said that flour shortage is not only in Larkana but...

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