Preparations to increase the price of government flour in Punjab

 Preparations to increase the price of government flour in Punjab

A 50% increase in the price is possible it has been proposed to fix the price of government flour at Rs.1920.Lahore (Urdu Point Newspaper Latest. 25 February 2022) Preparations to increase the price of official flour in Punjab. According to the report of Express-News, the food department in Punjab has sent 4 proposals to the caretaker government to increase the prices of government wheat and flour. 

Under these proposals, the price of a bag of government flour is likely to increase by 50 percent. It was proposed to fix the price of a 20 kg government flour bag at Rs.1920.On the other hand, the Punjab Supervisory Cabinet has proposed to fix the minimum support price of wheat at Rs 3900 per maund. In the cabinet meeting, approval was given to lease government land for corporate agriculture farming on a single-source basis, such land is only for agricultural purposes. can be used for According to the media report, the 7th meeting of the Provincial Cabinet was held under the chairmanship of caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi. In the meeting, it was decided to implement the measures of the Prime Minister's austerity policy at the provincial level.

 Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi has called for a comprehensive plan to adopt austerity at all levels. It was said in the meeting that the officers will donate one to three days' salary for the relief of earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria. In the meeting, it was proposed to fix the minimum support price of wheat at 3900 rupees per maund. 

In the meeting, the formation of the Foreign Funded Project Committee was approved to ensure the speedy completion of foreign-funded projects. Similarly, approval was given to lease government land on a single-source basis for corporate agriculture farming.  In the meeting, a supplementary grant of Rs 400 million was also approved for the police martyrs package.
In the provincial cabinet meeting presided over by caretaker Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi it was decided that a new emergency block will be built in Allied Hospital Faisalabad with the support of Friends of Allied Hospital. In the Cabinet meeting, the name of the Tourism Department was also approved as Tourism Archeology and Museum Department.