- An organization formed PM examined prices after the Ramadan climb.
- Govt aims at the two -level system to reduce the price of sugar.
- Mills providing sugar to Rs130 per kg in Sasta Bazaars.
Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, said on Wednesday that the sale of sugar at a price of RS178-180 per kg was intolerable and announced that the sugar retail price would remain at RS164 per kg, while its ex-minime price would be capped under 159 rupees per kg.
Announcing the main decisions after having presided over a meeting to examine the prices of sugar in live broadcast on national television, he said that a sub-comity had been created to submit recommendations within one month to solve the persistent problem.
The senior official said that the Committee had trained on the directive of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to examine the sugar issue that had held several meetings in the past after its prices have been increased in the sacred month of Ramadan.
DAR, a former Minister of Finance, said that the sale of sugar at RS178-180 per kg was not tolerable at any price, for the Prime Minister or the Government.
A subcommittee led by the Minister of National Food Security and Research Rana Tanveer Hussain would submit his comments in the previous month on April 19 in this regard, he informed.
He said that Sucre Mills Association had explained their reasons and that they organized a detailed interaction on the issue.
The meeting was followed by the Minister of National Food Security Rana Tanveer Hussain, Minister of Law and the judge Azam Nazeer Tarar, PM advisor, Haroon Akhtar, representatives of the Sugar Mills Association and the senior officials concerned.
DAR reiterated that the government was determined to conclude the problem and, through a viable manner, to relieve ordinary humans in the form of sugar availability at a reasonable price on the market.
He also explained that with collective consultations, if the two -level system could be implemented, the ordinary man would obtain sugar at the lowest as announced.
The DPM-FM also thanked the association of sweets for the supply of sugar at the subsidized rate of RS130 per kg to all 274 sasta bazaars.
There was no sugar shortage in the country, he said that he had excluded the need for importance and clearly indicating that the artificial sugar shortage would treat iron hands.