CM directs flour supply to Chitral

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Caretaker Chief Minister Azam Khan has assured that the flour availability issue at reasonable rates would be solved in Chitral district of the province.

He was talking to a delegation of Chitral which called on him and informed him about problems of people due to increased rates of wheat.

The delegation comprised former member provincial assembly, Molauna Abdur Rehman, Qari Jamal Abdul Nasir and Qazi Kifayat Ullah. Caretaker Minister for Agriculture, Muhammad Halim Qasurya was also present on the occasion.

The delegation said that government wheat was available at a rate of Rs5,500 per 100 kg some days back but the rate of the grain had increased to Rs11,500 that was beyond the purchasing power of poor people living in Chitral. The delegation urged government to reduce prices of wheat and play its part to provide subsidized wheat to Chitral like Gilgit and Baltistan.

They said that wheat should be provided to Chitral instead of the quota of flour mills should be decreased. Caretaker CM said that K-P purchased major portion of its wheat from Punjab and prices of the purchased commodity including transportation was Rs12,500 while the same wheat was provided to people with a subsidy of Rs100 per kilogram.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 18^th, 2023.