Ajk Food Security: ‘No cut in supply of subsidised flour’

MUZAFFARABAD: A spokesman of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Food Department has clarified that they have not stopped providing flour to the masses on subsidised rates, said a press release issued on late on Friday.

He has asked the people to contact district food officers in their respective areas in case they are facing problems in getting subsidised flour. Meanwhile, presiding over a meeting at Kashmir House in Islamabad, AJK Chief Secretary Khizer Hayat Gondal claimed that there was no food shortage in the region.

He said, however, that contractors have not been supplying flour in some areas as they have not received pending payments. The chief secretary has asked the finance department to release funds to pay the suppliers.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2014.