PESHAWAR: The owners of flour mills have complained about power suspension from express feeders to the mills and demanded of the government to ensure smooth power supply to their units.

Pakistan Flour Mills Association provincial president Mohammad Naeem Butt said in a statement here on Tuesday that prolonged loadshedding could cause flour crisis in the provincial metropolis.

He said that owing to increase in price of wheat flour, the consumers used to queue up outside the flour mills but they had to return empty handed due to power suspension to the units.

Mr Butt said that millers were facing serious problems in the grinding process that might result in shortage of wheat flour in Peshawar. He demanded of the provincial government to take notice of the power crisis and resolve the issue to ensure smooth flour supply to the sale points for facilitating the consumers.

In addition, he said, traffic police were not allowing trucks to go from warehouses to the flour mills that caused hindrance in the flour supply to consumers. “Our member flour mills are fully determined to supply flour to the designated points in Peshawar but the power crisis and restrictions by traffic police on movement of trucks are causing delay in the supply of the commodity,” he added.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2020