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TOBA TEK SINGH, May 1: The food department will purchase 80,000 tons of wheat from Kamalia and Toba Tek Singh tehsils while Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Supplies Corporation 30,000 tons from Gojra tehsil.
This was stated here on Thursday by a senior food department official.
He claimed that the two departments have so far purchased around 900 tons of wheat.
There were sufficient gunny bags and the food department and PASSCO had already issued 70,000 and 20,000 bags to the cultivators respectively.
CONCERN: The district council expressed concern over the delay in payment to the sugarcane growers by the mills.
District Naib Nazim Haji Ghulam Rabbani told newsmen here on Thursday that the mills have been directed to immediately clear dues as the matter was discussed in the last meeting of the district council.
He said election of chairmen of various sub-committees of the house would be completed within a week.
Two murdered: Two people, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents here on Thursday.
Five people opened fire on their opponent Ibrahim in Chak 519-GB on the dispute of land distribution dispute and killed him on the spot.
Sadar police claimed to have arrested accused Muhammad Ali and his four accomplices.
In the other incident, Ilyas allegedly stabbed his wife Naveeda to death in Chak 300-JB.
The couple had been separated and Ilyas wanted to reconcile with his wife. He had gone to his in-laws to bring her back and killed her on her refusal.
ACCIDENT: The five-year-old son of a treader, Sajjad, was crushed under the wheels of a donkey cart in Ghousiabad locality of Kamalia on Thursday.
Ijaz was playing in the street when the accident took place.
