Karachi (HRNW) Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab says the province has nothing to do with the sugar crisis regardless of what the inquiry commission says since it last approved a sugar subsidy in 2017.
“We did not approve any sugar subsidies in 2018, 2019 or 2020. It was last issued in December 2017, fixing the sugar wholesale price at Rs50.10 and retail price at Rs53 which was reduced to Rs51 in March 2018,” Wahab said on Thursday.
The spokesperson for Sindh government was addressing the media flanked by Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah.
He said the subsidy issued by the province not only stabilised sugar’s price, but also was lower than the previous cost.
“The statistics speak for themselves. The province’s farmers and public benefited [from the subsidy] unlike the Centre that fixed the price at Rs80,” said Wahab.
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