Federal Food Committee has agreed over substantial increase in quota of wheat supply to provinces and mills to rectify the prevailing flour crisis.
"The committee would facilitate and assist provincial governments to manage the prevailing flour crisis and devise measures to rectify the problem of people," Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant-General Farooq Ahmed Khan (Retd) said during meeting of the Committee Sunday.
He said the FFC would also take all the four provincial governments into confidence to implement the decision as soon as possible. Presiding over meeting of the Federal Food Committee, the Chairman said law enforcement agencies are engaged with immediate effect to guard the movement of wheat from storage sites to mills and flour from mills to market.
"All records of distribution of wheat and flour will be maintained in detail by different authorities on daily basis," he said. Provincial governments have been advised to establish control rooms to monitor the situation and special powers have been given to district administration to ensure execution of all FFC decisions at all levels, he added.
He said a comprehensive strategy has been chalked out for ensuring energy supply to mills, curbs on smuggling and transportation of wheat. The meeting was attended by senior officers from ministries of interior, railways, water and power, planning and development divisions while representatives of provincial governments, NLC, Rangers, FC, DG utility stores corporation and chairman all Pakistan Flour Mills Associations were also present on the occasion.
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