MIRPURKHAS: Mirpurkhas, Digri, Al Abbas and Tharparkar sugar mills have agreed to get the warehouses situated on the premises of their mills registered.

This was stated by Mirpurkhas Bureau of Supply and Price Control assistant director Naved Ahmed Shaikh. He told this correspondent here on Tuesday that for this purpose, the bureau had approached the law department for advice according to the law.

He said his department was established in 2008, but no legal power of magistrates was given to them as result they could not work properly to check the price hike in general commodities and hoarding to impose fine etc.

It may be recalled that the sugarmills of the district had imposed an alleged ban on the sale of their sugar in the local market, holding back their stock of sugar in their warehouses.

This situation,accordingtolocal traders, created an artificial shortage of sugar, which forced them to purchase sugar bags from far-off areas spending more money on transportation and selling the commodity on higher rates.

When contacted, Ghulam Mohammad Soomro, general manager of Al Abbas sugar mills, said that their warehouses were situated on the premises of their mills and they were not registered in the past. His mills had started to supply sugar in the local markets, he added.-Correspondnet