JHANG, Dec 4: The district council has, through a resolution, urged the authorities concerned to ensure that the millers purchase sugarcane at the official support price of Rs42 per 40kg from farmers.
The resolution was unanimously passed at a meeting of the district council on Monday.
It also demanded that the millers should clear farmers’ dues and payment of the current season dues within seven days of the supply of the sugarcane, so that the growers could cultivate wheat in time.
Immediately after the commencement of the proceedings, about a dozen members of both the groups informed the house that the millers were purchasing sugarcane at Rs28 to 32 per 40kg from farmers.
Later, a member tabled a resolution demanding that the farmers should be paid at or above Rs42.
The house was informed that weighing bridges installed at sugar mills and various purchase depots were inaccurate and show less weight.
The resolution also demanded elimination of the role of middlemen.
The house also proposed constitution of a committee, comprising five members each from every tehsil to supervise the conduct of millers and to examine the accuracy of the scales of weighing bridges and the purchase depots of sugar mills.
It also authorized Naib Nazim Syed Asad Hayat to nominate members to various market committees of the district.
VARIETY PROGRAMME: The trend of cusion marriages should be discouraged, Jhang district coordination officer Hasan Nawaz Tarar said on Monday.
Speaking after a variety programme held at Kehkashan, an institution for mentally-retarted children, he said awareness should be created about taking precautionary measures during pregnancy and before it for the prevention of mental retardation.
He assured the office-bearers and students of Kehkashan that the district administration would extend all-out support for the development and upgradation of the institution.
District Nazim Sahibzada Sultan Hameed appreciated the spirit and services of the members of Kehkashan.
He said mentally-ill people deserved full attention and the government was doing every thing possible for their rehabilitation, education and importing skills to them to make them useful citizens.
He urged the philanthropists to extend financial help to institutions working for the betterment of mentally-ill people.
Kehkashan children presented a variety programme. Eminent social worker Begum Razia Sa