Sindh

Final price: Sugar to be sold at Rs71 per kg

Sindh govt fixes retail price of sugar at Rs71 per kilogramme, retracting earlier assessment of Rs61 per kilogramme.

Hafeez Tunio November 12, 2010

KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to fix the retail price of sugar at Rs71 per kilogramme, retracting its earlier assessment of Rs61 per kilogramme.

District Coordination Officers (DCOs) have been directed to complete all arrangements immediately to ensure sugar supply at the final retail price, according to a press release issued by the Chief Minister’s House. Stern action will be taken against people found selling sugar at rates higher than the prescribed price, the statement added.

Meanwhile, the provincial government is yet to decide whether a special stall will be setup for providing sugar at subsidised rate or whether it will be made available through utility stores at a cheaper rate.

A spokesperson for the Sindh chief minister said that the government will take stiff action against hoarders and profiteers.

Officials also said that the provincial government has made adequate arrangements for receiving 70,000 tons of sugar of the stock being offloaded by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan.

On Wednesday, a meeting was held at the Chief Minister’s House to review the prices of essential commodities, including sugar. The meeting decided to set the retail price of sugar at Rs61, but within 24 hours the decision changed.

Talking to The Express Tribune a spokesperson for the chief minister said that the retail price of sugar has been fix at Rs71 per kilogramme.

Talking to the media at the interior ministry in Islamabad on Thursday, the Director-General (DG) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Waseem Ahmed described the sugar crisis as a “burning issue”. He said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik has finalised an inquiry into the Trading Corporation Pakistan (TCP) case, adding that senior officials were found to have been involved in the case. “The (findings) of the inquiry are being finalised. We will certainly take action against hoarders if (enough) sugar is not brought out (in the open market) in the next 24 hours,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 12^th, 2010.

COMMENTS (3)

nooralam | 14 years ago | Reply M Q M Qaid Altaf Bhai Request and Prime minister of pakistan Reassure record Price Recover Relevant weak govt low people of pakistan sugar price high people of pakistan poverty power problem vote possibility govt persent govt pre pare no probable home minister of pakistan of prime minister of Pakistan Representative home minister of sindh responsible sugar high price in karachi govt today market Rs 100per kg.people of karachi govt Struggle govt Structure file no no no ? nil nil harm ?????????????????????

Asif Aziz | 14 years ago | Reply Artificial sugar crisis is crated by the MNAs and parliamentarians and the present government was equally involved in this crisis.Now provincial and federal governments and sugar mills association are blaming and accusing each other of this sugar crisis and sugar mills association president clearly declared that sugar mills don’t have enough stock.This game of making profit and money amongst the members provincial and national assemblies,federal government and sugar mills association is driving the nation towards mentally disturbance and torture and our leaders are just giving hopes of betterment and prosperity.No one is accepting the responsibility of this artificial sugar crisis.

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