BAHAWALPUR, April 28: Yazman tehsil council on Monday rejected the government’s wheat procurement policy, calling for its review in the interest of growers.

At a meeting, the members of the ruling party and opposition alleged that the government was not paying due attention to the growers’ problems.

They said hundreds of thousands of maunds of wheat was lying in fields. Besides, they said gunny bags had not been supplied to many procurement centres and some growers had no access to the food department’s officials concerned. Consequently, the growers were compelled to sell their wheat at throwaway prices, they said.

Opposition leader Ilyas Ahmad Khan said arrangements at most of the procurement centres were inadequate.

The participants passed a resolution, demanding the government that it should provide gunny bags to the centres for the growers’ convenience.

COMPUTERIZED RECORD: The Bahawal Victoria Hospital’s record is being computerized by its administration.

This was stated by BVH Principal Executive Officer Prof Dr Muhammad Amin while talking to PML-Q MPA Mohtarma Sitara Fayyaz during her visit here on Sunday.

He said the government had provided Rs20 million for the hospital’s development.

NEW DEPARTMENT: A new department of environmental pollution will be opened at the Islamia University, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Munir Akhtar said at a seminar on Monday.