MIRPURKHAS: Farmers Organisation Council (FOC) and Sindh Growers Alliance (SGA) has demanded the Sindh chief minister and provincial minister for food to take immediate notice of selling 250,000 gunny bags of 20 wheat procuring centres of the district to traders of Dhoro Naro Town Naromal and Chetan Das at the rate of Rs 200 per gunny bag by Mirpurkhas District Food Controller (DFC) Muhammad Ali Channar. They said the growers had suffered big losses, adding the remaining 100,000 gunny bags were given to brokers and to political personalities. Emergency meeting of FOC Sindh was presided by its Chairman Javed Junejo and was attended by Akbar Khan, Ch Muneer Ahmed, Ghani Khan, Abdul Salam Halepota, Mir Hassan Khan and others. Junejo regretted that the sale of wheat in open market was inflicting heavy losses upon them. He said the wheat is being sold with a concession of Rs 150-200 per 40 kg in open market as compared to the officially announced rate of wheat. He rebuked the Mirpurkhas DFC and alleged the food controller was not sitting in his office while all the staff was holding meetings at unknown places for planning to sale the gunny bags. It was alleged that government had already ruined the growers by providing them cheap rate of rice and sugarcane crops and now they are facing corruption in the distribution of gunny bags. The meeting unanimously demanded the authorities of National Accountability Bureau to take notice and initiate inquiry into this matter and register the case against corrupt officials of Food Department and punish them. SGA Vice president Mir Haji Zafarullah Talpure alleged that Mirpurkhas DFC was a corrupt officer as he had sold the gunny bags to wheat traders in the Mirpurkhas district instead to distribute among the wheat growers, resulting in resentment and unrest among the growers. He deplored Mirpurkhas DFC did not implement the directives of provincial minister for food for setting up taluka base committees to judiciously distribute the gunny bags among the real growers instead of traders. He expressed growers were compelled to sell their production on cheap rate in the local market instead of getting official high price of product. He demanded the Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad, NAB and Anti-Corruption Establishment to take immediate notice of large scale corruption in Food Department and ensure registration of case against the Mirpurkhas DFC.