LAHORE, Sept 15: After supplying flour at subsidised prices to 1,400 or so tandoors, the City District Government of Lahore has finalised arrangements to ensure sale of roti at Rs2 in Lahore.

Magistrates would monitor the working of the special squads set up to supervise and verify that the tandoor owners getting subsidised flour were selling roti at the fixed price. Motorcycles and wireless sets had been provided to the members of special squads so that they could perform their duty.

TMOs of all the nine town municipal administrations, officials of the Market Committee and representatives of flour mills’ owners attended the meeting presided over by DCO Sajjad Ahmad Bhutta that decided to deal with an iron hand the tandoor owners who were getting subsidised flour but selling roti at more than the fixed price.

Some 1,400 tandoor owners were being supplied 20-kilo flour bags at Rs250 each. Wheat quota of mills supplying flour to tandoor owners had been doubled. The CDGL officials were keeping a vigil on the supply of wheat to the mills and of flour to tandoor owners.

The meeting was informed that some 358 bags of 20kg were being supplied to tandoors at Data Gunj Bakhsh Town, 252 at Wagah Town, 194 to Aziz Bhatti Town, 147 to Shalamar Town, 37 at Gulberg Town, 30 at Nishtar Town, 79 at Iqbal Town, 60 at Samanabad Town, 137 at Ravi Town (A) and 106 at Ravi Town (B).