Punjab government has decided to abolish the delivery charges on wheat during up-coming wheat procurement campaign. This decision was taken during a high level meeting of the committee to review proposals pertaining to Wheat Release Policy 2010-11. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa here on Wednesday.
Chief Secretary Punjab Nasir Mehmood Khosa, Chairman Planning and Development Board Punjab, Javed Aslam, Secretary Finance Tariq Bajwa, Secretary Food Irfan Elahi and other concerned officers also attended the meeting. In the meeting, it was decided that delivery charges on wheat which was fixed Rs 7.50 earlier would not be taken during wheat procurement campaign.
The meeting was informed that available stocks of wheat were 6.66 million tons out of which 3.33 million tons wheat has been disposed off and now available stock of wheat is 3.33 million tons while 2.5 million tons of wheat would be remained available till the arrival of new wheat crop in the market.