LAHORE: The district administration on Tuesday cancelled the wheat quota of six mills for supplying less flour to the market and registered 30 cases against the traders involved in hoarding.
The district food controllers were taking measures to ensure the supply of subsidised flour in the market.
The food controller teams visited different flour mills of the city and found irregularities in supplying flour. The administration took action against the mills and cancelled the wheat quota of six mills and also sealed them.
The administration cancelled the wheat quota of flour mills - Eitmad, GL, Bahria, Sufi, Qaiser and Tariq. Fine totalling Rs3 million was imposed on Barkat, Rasheed Malik, Yaqoobia, Bahria and other flour mills.
District food controller Amjad Ali said licences of 25 dealers and shopkeepers were also cancelled for refusing to sell subsidised flour. He said 30 cases were also registered against the shopkeepers involved in hoarding flour while adding stern action would be taken against the people involved in creating artificial flour crisis in the city.
He said the millers were directed to provide flour in the market according to quota otherwise they would seal the units.
Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2022
