ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The Punjab government has constituted a commission to review and maintain prices of sugar and wheat under the chairmanship of provincial Food Minister Chaudhry Mohammad Iqbal.

The commission would include public representatives, government officials and representatives from the flour and sugar mills associations.

Punjab Agriculture Marketing Minister Qasim Noon, Chief Secretary Salman Siddique and the Food Secretary are among the members of the commission, a local channel reported.

The commission would conduct a comprehensive study to ascertain facts behind the ongoing sugar crisis besides finding out ways to rationalise sugar prices in future while maintaining the commodity’s prices at a controlled level.

The commission would try to adopt a balanced approach to safeguard the interests of both consumers and millers.

“The inclusion of government and millers in the commission would help understand the situation and, hopefully, together they would devise a way to rationalise prices, which would ultimately provide a relief to the common man,” the report added. — APP