GUJRANWALA, Feb 28: The Food department has deployed its employees at flour mills to ensure flour supply in the market while owners have been directed to provide 80 per cent flour in the market otherwise their mills will be sealed.

This was stated by District Food Controller Chaudhry Navid Ashraf here on Saturday.

He revealed that the government had sufficient wheat stock and there was no shortage of the commodity anywhere in the district. He said the department was supplying sanctioned quota of wheat to flour mills regularly.

Mr Ashraf pointed out that the employees deployed at mills would monitor the flour supply in the market. The government, he claimed, was adopting solid steps to provide flour to the people without any hindrance.

Some 64 shopkeepers, he gave out, were arrested for selling flour on excess prices and were fined Rs150,000 collectively under the Price Act in the district during the last two weeks.

He further claimed that the flour supply under Chief Minister's Programme to the destitute was also continuing.

SHIFTED: The Anti-Corruption Establishment office was shifted to the District Council Hall from the Peoples Colony police station by the Punjab anti-corruption director-general on Saturday.

While Chaudhry Shahid Nawaz Warraich has been inducted as Anti-Corruption Circle Officer, Gujranwala.