SIALKOT, Jan 15: To avoid headache due to shortage of flour, schoolteachers on Tuesday sought help of their students who queued up in large numbers for getting the commodity for their academics.

Students of various government schools were seen standing at flour sale points in Daska city to buy atta for their teachers, earning in return leisurely hours away from classrooms.

While most of the students this correspondent talked to said their teachers had sent them to fetch flour, many were on short leave for getting flour for their homes. “We’ll be right back to school after dropping the flour bags at homes”, they said.

The district administration has set up 14 sale points in Sialkot’s urban and rural parts for the convenience of the consumers, but the quantity made available hardly fulfils the need of the population.

The Rangers have already taken control of the 24 flour mills (18 in Sialkot and six in Narowal), monitoring the flour production and supply. District Food Controller Rohail Butt told newsmen that the Rangers stood at the mills in Sialkot, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Pasrur, Shakargarh, Narowal and surrounding areas and were regularly checking the records of the flour mills.