22 October 2004	Friday	07 Ramazan 1425

QUETTA, Oct 21: The Balochistan Food Minister Maulana Noor Mohammad has asked the authorities to take strict action against people buying flour.

Speaking at a meeting here on Thursday, he said that government had made all arrangements for flour supply on government rates and under these arrangements flour would be available in the market in the next two days.

"Under this arrangement the 100kg flour bag would be available for Rs 1,200 in the market," food minister announced and added that no flour dealer would be allowed charge more.

He said the government would supply flour through fair price shops in Quetta district while in the other districts it would be distributed through district coordination officers on fixed rates.

He said that dealers were selling flour on high rates coming from Punjab and other areas while flour supplied by the government was available on fixed price.