DC asks food controller to take action against flour price hike.

HYDERABAD -- The Deputy commissioner Hyderabad Faud Ghaffar Soomro while taking serious notice over flour price hike in the district has directed the District Food Controller (DFC) to take immediate action against flour mills and ensure bringing the flour prices down.

On directives of the Deputy Commissioner, the District Food Controller Niaz Ahmad Arejo has started conducting surprise visit to the flour mills, the spokesman of the district administration informed here on Friday adding that the District Food Controller has informed that Sindh government has supplied wheat to flour mills owners with a condition to sale flour on government fixed price at the rate of Rs 41.83 per Kilogram.

He warned the flour mills owners that if any of them found selling flour on higher then fixed prices, the...