Every step will be taken to stabilize wheat price in market: Punjab CM

LAHORE (92 News) – Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar presided over a meeting at his office to review steps for stabilizing the prices of wheat and flour in the province. The meeting discussed different options for releasing wheat to flour mills and decided that approval will be sought from the provincial cabinet for release of wheat to flour mills and fixing of wheat price. After cabinet approval, the wheat will be provided to flour mills at a price to be decided by it. Usman Buzdar said the Punjab government has ample wheat stocks and every step will be taken to stabilize the price of wheat in the market. “A decision will be made to stabilize the flour price after reviewing every option,” he added. The CM directed to take necessary steps to keep the prices of wheat and flour within the reach of the common man as the Punjab government has purchased record wheat during the current season. Senior Minister Abdul Aleem Khan, Chief Secretary, Secretary Food, Director Food and DC Lahore attended the meeting. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired the video link meeting of cabinet meeting for the eradication of corona at his office. Addressing the meeting, the CM expressed the satisfaction that daily testing capacity of Punjab has reached to 12,000 while the total number of corona patients in Punjab is 68,308. “19,580 have been recovered and 3,498 patients are under treatment in different hospitals of the province. The number of confirmed patients has declined during the last three days,” he said. Meanwhile, approval of the revision of SOPs for the burial of corona patients has been given and the family member could also give ‘Ghusal’ to the deceased while wearing personal protective equipment. The CM also directed to continue crackdown against those involved in the hoarding of necessary medicines and asked the administration to submit the report. Provincial Ministers Dr Yasmeen Rashid, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Fayyazul Hassan Chohan, Chief Secretary, IG Police, ACS (Home) administrative secretaries and Commissioner Lahore attended the meeting.