Flour bags vanish again from local market

The flour millers however, were of the view that the flour supply situation would improve in the local market from Monday.

“It will take two to three days more to bridge the supply and demand gap. The government has fixed the new price of 20-kg flour bag at Rs 420, which would not only help improve the supply situation but also discourage the flour smuggling,” Dr Bilal Sufi, Honorary Advisor to the Pakistan Flour Mills Association said, when contacted.

He also said that at least 80,000 flour bags would be supplied to the Sunday bazaars to overcome the flour shortage in the City.

Naeem Khan, another shopkeeper from Mughalpura area said that they were still facing severe shortage of flour. He said that over a hundred flour bags were supplied to some dealers, which disappeared from the shops within no time because the demand was very high than the supply.

Meanwhile, the areas like Baghbanpura, Shadman, Wahdat Colony, Iqbal Town, Sabzazar, Islampura, Johar Town, Township, Faisal Town and Samanabad are facing acute shortage of flour due to the mismanagement and inadequate supply.

It is worth mentioning here that the Punjab government during the holy month of Ramadan had fixed the price of 20kg flour bag at Rs 300 and gave Rs 1.60 billion subsidy on flour to provide cheap flour to the public.