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Sugarcane growers received full price payments: Fawad
March 25, 2019

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that timely payments to sugarcane farmers on the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan,did benefit them and now they have resources for next crop.

In a tweet, the Minister said that after a long time farmers in Punjab and Sindh were paid the proper price of sugarcane on time.

In another tweet today, the Information Minister said crackdown on electricity pilfering has started yielding positive results.

He said two thousand people have been arrested in about twenty thousand cases registered in the campaign to stop the theft of electrical power.

He said the arrested persons also include employees of power department.

Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said power theft and damages to the tune of forty two billion rupees have so far been curtailed as part of the drive.