SAB chief urges government to begin wheat procurement from April 1

President Sindh Abadgar Board Abdul Majeed Nizamani has demanded the government to start the wheat procurement in accordance with its own announcement from April 1, 2018.
Addressing a press conference at Hyderabad Press Club on Wednesday, he said that this year, the government has fixed the target of 1.4 million tons of wheat procurement and there is a dire need to provide 14 million gunny bags to growers so that they could be able to bring their wheat to the procurement centres.
He said that the growers have learnt that the provincial government has issued orders to Food Inspectors to issue only 25 percent gunny bags to growers and grant the remaining bags to elected representatives, party office bearers, government officers and blue-eyed growers.
Nizamani expressed his deep concern over such decision of the government, adding that it would deprive the growers of their rights, adding that the distribution of gunny bags on political ground is great injustice with the growers.
He said that the said decision would also cause difficulties to in-charges of procurement centres to achieve the procurement targets as non availability of gunny bags would force the growers to sale their produce with minimum price in open market. He demanded the Chief Justice of Supreme Court and Chief Justice Sindh High Court to take notice of such expected misappropriation and corruption and issue directives to the government to do justice with the growers.