Provincial Minister for Food and Health Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said on Monday that the owners of flour mills were making money at the cost of peoples’ health and causing a great loss to the government exchequer.
“Importers have purchased 6.5 lac metric tons of low quality wheat from Russia and Ukrain at the rate of 260 to 267 dollars per ton and total payment was made from 161,900,000 dollars to 18,6550,000 dollars and they did so in order to get more profit and grinding low quality wheat,” he said in a statement.
The minister said: “Through this act, the millers will get profit of more than 1,50,00,000 dollars and this will affect the people of Pakistan in general and people of Sindh in particular.”
Dahar said 18,00,000 metric tons of good quality wheat was lying in government and private sector godowns. He said on one hand, the millers were minting money while grinding and importing low quality wheat and on the other hand causing loss to the government exchequer. He demanded of the federal government to take immediate notice of the situation.
they �2l �� �� ed immediate relief. He said if the transport department, government of Sindh, issued a notification for reduction of bus fares in Karachi, the Karachi Transport Action Committee would fully support it.
The Karachi commuters’ rights campaign, a body of commuters’ rights, says the public transport sector in Karachi needs a complete overhauling. The public transport sector of the city needs modernisation and the city commuters be provided urban commuting facilities like other major urban metropolitan cities. Karachi needs underground metro rail project to mitigate the sufferings of millions of commuters. The surface rail-based Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) should be revived.
The important transport department must be handed over to an able and competent administration having proper vision of the urban public transport needs. There should be a proper colour code for all types of public transport vehicles in Karachi. The fare difference between minibuses and coaches be abolished and the coaches should be given proper route numbers. Moreover, there should be only two stages in bus fares: one for destinations up to two bus stops and other for the destination for more than two bus stops.
