He was presiding over a District Monitoring Committee meeting at DC Office Committee room to review the matters of sugarcane crushing season and up to date status of payments from sugar mills. The special assistant informed that special monitoring was being carried out by the Punjab government and entire administrative machinery had been mobilized to protect the interest of the growers till the completion of crushing season. He enquired from the ACs about the current payment status of the sugar mills at their respective areas and directed that the 100 percent payment should be made to the growers of the sugarcane supplied up to 31st January. He asked the sugar mills management to pay the remaining dues of sugarcane to the farmers within stipulated period in respectable manner. He stressed upon proper traffic management to avoid road accidents due to sugarcane loaded trolleys.
The special assistant also urged upon increasing the police patrolling for the safety and security of sugarcane growers. ADCR Tariq Niazi briefed about the measures taken by the district administration for the supervision of crushing season and informed about the action taken against the middlemen and illegal weigh bridges. He informed that action taken against 142 middlemen and during the crushing season 25 persons were arrested and 114 FIRs have been registered. Among others the meeting was also attended by ACs Syed Tanvir Murtaza, Aurangzeb, Nadeem Abbas, Khurram Shehzad Bhatti, SP Admn. Zubaida Parveen, DSP Traffic Zahida Parveen, Storage and Enforcement Officer Muhammad Taufiq, representatives of farmers and sugar mills.