Excise duty on food items should be abolished and utility store system should be reformed, economist. Photo: File Due to the bad economic situation in the country, limited sources of income, low salary and unemployment problems have severely affected the purchasing power of the middle and poor classes. Flour, ghee, oil, pulses are expensive in…
Lahore: In Punjab, every person with ID card above 18 years of age has been declared eligible to get free flour. The system of providing targeted food subsidy only to deserving families by providing free flour in the province has been done away with and under the new system free flour is provided to all…
After Pakistan, the prices of flour in the neighboring country India also started to be out of reach of the people. In India, the world’s most populous country, the price of flour increased by 40% in one year.In the month of January alone, the price of flour has increased twice, which has left the people…
