An emergent meeting of Awami Action Committee (AAC) YasinGhizer was held under the chair of its presidentBahadurAman and urged the government to fulfill its promise about the provision of 8-10 Kg wheat instead of 6.5 Kg wheat to per person per month. AAC Yasin chapter further said that people of the area have cooperated with the concern department of the government for carrying out the biometric verification of the people and termed the provision of 6.5 Kg wheat to per person as not enough/un-justified and committee has given one-week time line to the government to provide the enhanced wheat scale, otherwise, they would come-out on the streets. AAC Yasin further said that decision regarding the enhancement in the electricity bills of commercial sector /commercial consumers was not acceptable and President of AAC has warned that administration may not made any attempt to implement the Finance Act-2023, as we have also completely rejecting the said Act. Where-as on the other hand, it was reported in the social media that a big chunk of people were excessively recorded / mentioned in the recently prepared digital data of the people in order to get extra scale of wheat and flour, which is needed to be rectified/corrected.
Wheat was being provided to the people of the area on low price for more than five decades by the federal government and presently 6.5 kg wheat was being provided to the people of the area as claimed by the AAC Yasin chapter of District Ghizer and committee has termed the provision of 6.5 kg wheat scale to per person was not enough and urged to revise it. The committee claimed that it was promised with the people that after the completion of digital survey of the people residing across the region, wheat scale of per person would be increased and now the digital survey has been completed, therefore, they were demanding for the provision of 8-10 kg wheat scale to per person instead of 6.5 kg. AAC Yasin chapter has given one week timeline to the government to provide the 8-10 kg wheat scale per person, otherwise, they would come on the streets, AAC Yasin President BahadurAman has said that increase in the electricity commercial bills would not be accepted and warned the administration not to made any attempt to enforce the Finance Act of 2023. It may be pertinent to mention here that federal government had already increased the wheat subsidy budget of the region for the fiscal year 2024-2025 and petroleum products price was substantially decreased by the federal government, therefore, the government of the region was required to enhance the wheat scale of per capita up-to 10 kg per month and present scale of wheat was not enough to meet the requirement. AAC Yasin chapter demand was seems to be appropriate in line with the promise of the government to enhance the wheat scale per person and government has to oblige its promise. Moreover, if there was any flaw in digital survey or double entries have been made during the collection of data from the people, the said mistake/error may be rectified through subsequent verification of the area whose population was shown in excess from the real one.We would urge tot the concern quarters of the regional government to enhance the wheat scale of per person per month up-to 10 kg keeping in view of increase in the wheat subsidy budget and substantial decrease in the petroleum products price by the federal voenrment
