The Department of Food, NWFP has to release special wheat quota of 34,091 tons to the functional flour mills in the province at the rate of Rs 11.155 per kg with a subsidy of Rs 1,000 in a ton.
The wheat quota would be released under a Special Ramazan Package 2007 approved by the Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani to provide cheap and quality flour to the people of the province. The flourmills would grind the wheat and pack it in 20-Kg bags and would be offered for sale to consumers in all the districts of NWFP except Chitral and Kohistan. A total of 1,425,000 bags of 20-Kg flour each would be offered for sale in all districts. While in Chitral and Kohistan, which have no flourmill would get 680 and 1,025 tons of wheat respectively. The commodity would be offered to consumers at subsidised rates.
The package would be valid for 95 constituencies of the Provincial Assembly (94 general constituencies of 22 districts plus one additional constituency for Peshawar being the provincial headquarter).
In each constituency of Provincial Assembly, three sale points would be identified where 1,000 bags of 20-Kg each would be sold at subsidised rate at each sale point on every Sunday falling during the month (total five Sundays). Thus a total of 285,000 bags would be up for sale on each Sunday in the province. In this connection, the millers would be required to prepare special bags inscribed with the name of the mill concerned, weight of the bag, price and of 20-Kg and Ramzaan Package 2007 in bold letters. The transportation of the bags to the sale points would be responsibility of the mills. The subsidised price of 20-Kg bag would be Rs 250 at the sale points.
The District Coordination Officer (DCO) concerned would supervise the distribution of flour, who would also be responsible to identify and publicise the sale points in the constituencies of his district in consultation with elected representatives.
On each sale point, a responsible representative of DCO, an official each of Food Department and police would be present to monitor the distribution. The police would be responsible for overall security.
The provincial government had directed the Secretary Home and Provincial Police Officer NWFP for making adequate arrangements for security and transparent distribution of the commodity on each sale point on every Sunday. Similarly, police would provide security to the trucks supplying wheat flour bags from mills upto the sale points.
It would also be ensured that no-one is allowed to misuse the relief package, the wheat flour bags of the scheme are not smuggled across the border, under the distribution/sale mechanism, each deserving person gets the bags and maximum people are benefited, influential of the locality do not get undue advantage of the package, one person does not get more than one bag at a time.
In addition to the above, to arrest the recent upsurge in the prices of consumer items especially in the month of Ramazan, all the DCOs/District Food Controllers have been asked to make effective use of Special Magistrates who are vested with powers of raids and summary trials of the violators on the spot. Local police has been asked to extend the required assistance and cooperation to the Special Magistrates in their drive against hoarders, profiteers and adulterators.
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