ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday said provision of free flour to the needy should be ensured to lessen people’s difficulties in the month of Ramazan.
He was chairing a review meeting here to provide free flour to the people of Islamabad capital territory.
He said the government was taking all possible measures to reduce the difficulties of poor people in Ramazan.
“After my visits to Lahore, Kasur and Sargodha, I will visit other cities to oversee the process for supply of free flour and to ensure quality.”
PM Shehbaz instructed that those eligible persons who were not registered with the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and could not get free flour should be immediately reported.
NADRA and BISP counters at flour distribution centers
The Prime Minister directed that counters of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and BISP should be immediately opened at the flour distribution points.
PM Shehbaz further directed that any needy person who comes to the free flour distribution centre should be given flour; in this regard, all relevant departments should take steps.
The meeting was informed that the provision of free flour was continuing in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad, and many families were benefitting from the scheme.
It was said that the number of free flour distribution centres was being increased in Islamabad to facilitate people coming to obtain flour.
Federal Ministers Rana Sanaullah, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Advisor to PM Ahad Cheema, former members of National Assembly Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Anjum Aqeel and officers concerned attended the meeting.
