Another bad news for the people who are suffering from inflation! For the second time in the last ten days, people have dropped a flour price bomb.
According to our resources, people living life issues have increased with the coming to a flour bomb of inflation. 20 kg of flour bag increased to more than 50 Rs. 20 kg of flour in the bag being sold at Rs 1000 which was previously at Rs 975. The non-food association also gets into action for an increase in prices. United Association non-food announced the increase in plain roti from June 10.
The president of United Association non-food, Aftab Gul said that if the price was not provided flour 10 Jun plain roti will be sold at Rs 10, simple naan will be sold at 15 rupees.
The Pakistan Flour Mills Association had recently demanded the government to import 1 million tonnes of wheat to overcome the flour crisis. Chairman Pakistan Flour Mills Association Punjab Zone, Abdul Rauf Mukhtar said that due to poor policies of Punjab Food Department, the price of wheat has crossed Rs. 1600 per quintal today and the price of wheat may go up further in the coming months. One million tonnes of wheat should be imported to stabilize the price of local wheat.
Extracted from City42 News
