Sharjeel vows to provide flour at 65-95 per kg in Sindh.

KARACHI -- Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon on Tuesday announced targeted subsidy to overcome prevailing flour crisis in the province. Addressing a press conference in Karachi, he said that the flour will be available in the market for Rs95 per kilogram (kg). This will be possible as the government has increased the quota for mills' owners, he added. Currently, the minister said that the price of flour per kg has soared past Rs160 in the province. However, that will not be the case onward. He claimed that the underprivileged people were already getting commodity in Rs65 per kg. He said that the government is ensuring supply of 0.6 million subsidized flour bags to masses through 460 trucks.

He further said that . Rs1 million compensation would be given to the legal heirs of person died in the tragic incident in Mirpurkhas, during the purchase of flour. He said that 460 trucks had been allocated daily for supply of subsidies flour for Karachi, while 600000 bags of 10-kg were being supplied daily across the province at discounted rates. On which the government is giving subsidy of billions of rupees. He said that only public government can take such decisions for the people. The provincial minister said that the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party has strictly instructed the Food Minister Sindh Mukesh Kumar Chawla to bring the prices of flour under...