Punjab Food Minister Bilal Yaseen has vowed that the provincial ministers and concerned officials shall continue surprise visits to sugar mills till the end of crushing season and no stone will be left unturned for protection of rights of the peasants.
On special directives of Punjab CM, Bilal Yaseen inspected three sugar mills located in Toba Tek Singh, Faisalabad, Tandlianwala and observed sugarcane procurement process.
He also talked to sugarcane growers and assured them all sort of relief from the government. He directed district administration officers and sugar mills management to strictly follow weighing standard and issue CPR at any cost. “Take action against any role of middleman” he further stressed.
While talking to the minister, the sugarcane cultivators expressed satisfaction over steps taken by the government especially they were grateful on pro-peasant vision of Punjab chief minister.
Bilal Yaseen said that the agriculture was a major part of national economy and welfare of farmers meant betterment of the country, for the first time in the history of Pakistan, the incumbent Punjab government started to serve farmers’ community by announcing “Kissan Package” resultantly a sense of security has been emerged among farmers and they were thinking that they were not alone and the government was providing them all the possible relief.
Presence of illegal weighing scales anywhere will not be tolerated, the minister categorically concluded.
