‘Corrupt officer’ given wheat survey duty

Atta Chakki Owners Association presents problems they were facing at the hands of the Sindh Food Department

HYDERABAD:

An officer of the food department suspended for selling the grain kept in government warehouse in black market and completing the count by filling sacks with sand and stones has been given the charge to conduct survey of wheat grinders.

Atta Chakki Owners Association delegation led by its president Haji Muhammad Memon met the lawmakers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and presented the problems they were facing at the hands of the Sindh Food Department.

MQM-P MPA Rashid Khilji deplored during the meeting that a food official who was recently suspended after a team of the district administration found sand and grit filled wheat bags at the food department's warehouse in Hali Road has been given the task to survey the functional chakkis.

The MPA wondered how the warehouse's former in charge Muhammad Ali Magsi, who is said to be a relative of Hyderabad's acting food controller Ali Hassan Magsi, will conduct the survey without prejudice.

The MPAs Nasir Qureshi and Nadeem Siddiqui said 90% people of Hyderabad buy flour from chakkis and denying due wheat quota to chakkis will consequently affect the city's people.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2022.