MITHI, Jan 17: The people and chakki owners of the Tharparkar district have appealed to the Sindh governor and chief minister to direct the food department to sanction special quota of wheat of 50,000 bags per month for the district.

They said around 200 chakkis might be closed in the next few days if the wheat quota was not increased.

The chakki owners Kishore Kumar, Lajpat Rai, Ashok Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Jai Parkash and others told this correspondent in presence of a food department official on Saturday that though the population of Tharparkar district was around one million, but the food department was supplying meager quota of merely 12 bags of wheat per week to every registered chakki.

An official told this correspondent that he could not get even ten kilo wheat flour from any chakki of the town.

There are 80 registered and 120 unregistered atta chakkis in the district, however, most of them have already become inoperative, owing to inadequate supply of wheat to them by the food department.

District coordination officer Tharparkar has also officially written to the Sindh food secretary to sanction special quota of 35,000 bags per month.