The Sindh cabinet taking historic decisions approved a plan under which no flour mill would be declared as Procurement Reserve Center (PRC) because of the misappropriation cases.
The cabinet met here on Wednesday with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in the chair.
It also decided to allot district-wise Bar-coded bags to be distributed among growers in Sindh.
The cabinet also decided that only those officers would be posted as center/godown in-charge against whom no case in under trial. The posted in-charge at godowns would continue till the end of procurement of wheat and shifting to safe places.
In order to ensure fair distribution of bardana among the growers, district-wise procurement target would be fixed on proportionate basis, means the share of the production of the respective district.
The provincial cabinet expressed serious reservations over the attitude of the federal government regarding the transfer of the Sindh IGP.
The law and order has gone to an extent where a sitting MPA and member of the Public Safety Commission, Shahnaz Ansari has been killed though she had sent an application for her security to the IG Police on Feb 12 and the IGP received it on Feb 13 and took two days to upload the request in his complaint system for SSP Naushehro Feroze and by the time she was killed. The cabinet expressed pleasure over the arrest of the main accused.
The cabinet also discussed the murder of journalist Aziz Memon in which the police have failed to arrest any accused so far.
The chief minister said that he had sent Education Minister Saeed Ghani to meet with the family members of Aziz Memon. Saeed met with his brother Hafiz Memon and on his [CM's] behalf he offered him to register an FIR against the people whom he had any iota of doubt of being involved in the murder.
The chief minister directed the Home Secretary to coordinate with the police and the family of the deceased for transferring the inquiry from Naushehro Feroze to SSP Nawabshah.
Law & order: The cabinet was told that the CPLC has released the figures of worsening law and order situation in Karachi. In December 2019 some 128 four wheelers were theft/snatched and after one month in January 2020 the figure rose to 191 vehicles which shows an increase of 64 percent.
The cabinet termed the worsening law and order situation in Sindh as the result of uncertainty the federal government has created by halting the transfer of IG Police. "This is unfortunate that the federal government despite agreement, in principle, is lingering the IGP's transfer issue though it has changed five IGPs in Punjab," the chief minister maintained.
E-stamping: The Board of Revenue told the cabinet that it was going to introduce e-stamping under which recovery would reach Rs10 billion annually. A software has been developed in-house by a team of automation of stamps & registration project. The model envisages issuance of e-stamp paper through designated banks on payment of cash throughout the province. At this the chief minister directed the SMBR to execute Service Level Agreement (SLA) with banks, particularly Sindh Bank.
Revenue Minister Makhdoom Mahboob Zaman said that the State Bank has agreed to allow National Bank to be the BoR's collecting agent but was reluctant to declare Sindh Bank as collecting agent.
AT this the chief minister said the Bank of Punjab has already been declared as collecting agent then why not Sindh, he questioned and directed Secretary Finance to resolve the matter.
Keamari incident: The chief minister said MPA Liaqat Askani was the first person who informed him about the off-loading of a container at KPT which spread toxic gas. Askani had pointed out that people were facing breathing problems.
The chief minister directed the chief secretary to submit proposal to further strengthening the Provincial Disaster Management Authority to combat such incidents.