PESHAWAR, Feb 13: NWFP Food Minister Fazle Rabbani has ordered checking of stock registers of sugar mills in the province as part of measures to ensure proper supply to the market.

Presiding over a meeting, the minister ordered collection of information about firms and agencies which had purchased sugar from the mills over the past three months and to find out if they had released the commodity in the market.

The minister ordered immediate action against hoarders and said the stocked sugar should be sold at rates fixed by the government.

He said the district coordination officers should be contacted to identify sale points so that availability of sugar for people could be ensured there.

He requested the federal government to provide sugar for the sale points in addition to utility stores. Officials of the provincial food, finance and home departments attended the meeting.

—APP