Raza Naqvi Attock
Attock
Deputy Director Food Rawalpindi Division Zaryab Sajid Kamboh has said that there was no shortage of wheat flour anywhere in this division and that sufficient stock of wheat available with shopkeepers. He was talking to newsmen.
He said that the process of supply of flour at a controlled rate is going on in all the districts of the Rawalpindi division (Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum, Chakwal) on a daily basis and nowhere is there any complaint of shortage or sale of flour. Responding to a question, Mr Kamboh said that the imported wheat has arrived at the reserve gowdowns of food department Rawalpindi and subsequently are being supplied to flour mills of Rawalpindi division including Islamabad, Jhelum, Attock and Chakwal.
Responding a question, Mr Kamboh said that the food department has introduced proper check and balance over flour mills operating in the division for fair and transparent distribution of flour to the public, non-observance of extraction ratio, less weigh, stenciling of bags, poor observance of cleanliness, improper book keeping and having moisture in the flour and in this connection action was taken against as many as 29 flour mills of the division. Mr Kamboh ruled out paucity of flour to the masses in Rawalpndi division adding that 4 thousand bags of flour being supplied to each 17 Sahulat bazaar of Rawalpindi as well as 190 fair price shops besides 40 different trucking points to provide flour to the masses at their door steps besides over 250 dealers.
He said that flour millers of theb region are getting wheat from Sindh and South Punjab and there is no ban over procurement and transportation, however, the hoarding would not be allowed at any cost. Mr Kamboh said that 78 flour mills are operating in Rawalpindi district while 47 in Islamabad.
