LAHORE, Dec 6: Sale of 1.8 million subsidized flour bags will start at 150 points in the city district under chief minister's sasta atta scheme from Tuesday. Ten million bags are to be sold in the province under the scheme by April 15.

The subsidized flour will be sold at one sale point in each of the 150 union councils in the city district for three days every week. It will be available at the sale points proposed by the members of senate, national and provincial assemblies for two days every week.

A 10kg flour bag will be sold for Rs90 at these points for five months. The food department will provide special wheat quota for the production of subsidized flour bags.

District Officer (Revenue) Malik Mohammad Bakhsh told Dawn that union council Nazims had not been asked to furnish the lists of deserving persons and distributed coupons for the provision of subsidized flour this year. Everyone coming to a designated sale point with the national identity card would be considered a deserving person.