Sugar Commission Punjab Finance Department files a sugar subsidy of

Sugar Commission Punjab Finance Department files a sugar subsidy 

Islamabad: An official file from the Punjab Finance Department has been received by the China Commission headed by DG FIA Wajid Zia to explain how Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar received a Rs 3 billion sugar subsidy.

However, the Commission has not yet interviewed the Punjab Chief Minister and the relevant authorities in their statements to address the issue of subsidy, which asks serious questions.

Usman Buzdar was recently interviewed by the FIA ​​Investigation Committee on the issue of wheat and flour crisis, but sources close to the chief minister said he had not yet been contacted for his statement on the sugar subsidy case.

The FIA ​​Committee strongly reflects on the wheat / flour scandal on the Punjab chief minister, who has repeatedly made changes in the food sector that have led to the recent crisis, but the FIA ​​has not recommended any action against Bujdar. The FIA's brown report - which includes three parts - is decisive. In the case of the Chinese crisis, the FIA's report on sugar set up a commission headed by Wajid Zia to investigate the matter in detail. Based on the report of the China Commission to be submitted on April 25, the government has indicated that it will take criminal and departmental action against any wrongdoers.

The FIA ​​report on wheat spoke negatively with Chief Minister Buzdar, the three food ministers in the Union, Punjab and KP, and some officials responsible for the crisis, but the government has not yet stepped up. The exception to this was the Food Secretary who made the Prime Minister OSD. On the issue of sugar subsidies, The News recently highlighted the questionable approach of the Punjab government to allow 3 billion concessions to the sugar industry.

Two days after meeting with the Punjab Chief Minister in Islamabad, the EC decided not to wait for minutes but to preside over the Oral Communication Meeting from Islamabad and subsidize the impacting sugar industry by Rs 3 billion. .

Subsequently, instead of waiting for a consultation process between the regional sectors and ignoring the all important financial sector policy, Buzdar subsidized the cabinet meeting on December 29, 2018, raising the issue of a surprising pre-agenda issue

By doing so, the bureaucratic consultative policies in the business rules have been suppressed. In order to improve the already canceled processes, the Punjab Chief Minister had to give pre-post approval to his previous work.

Cabinet ministers were also in the dark as they did not share with them the essence of the Food Department's endorsement of sugar concessions, nor did they have the opportunity to see all the important finance ministry views on the matter.

Subsidies are not always the preferred option, but instead are considered distortions for better financial management, especially in the case of the financial department's case file, when the impact or concrete translation of such programs for the welfare of beneficiaries is unclear. Is. Therefore, such financial distortions should in principle be discouraged. This summary considered by the Finance Department was not allowed to be submitted to the Cabinet for use as a rubber stamp to approve the Chinese subsidy.