SARGODHA: Commissioner Muhammad Ajmal Bhatti distributed ration among the poor here on Tuesday. Regional Police Officer Shaariq Kamal, Deputy Commissioner Shoaib Ali and other officers were also present. The commissioner said that it was a good initiative of Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz to provide free ration to the deserving families during Ramazan. The target families were already registered under the Benazir Income Support Programme whose data was verified, he said. The commissioner said that as a trial, ration was sent homes of three hundred families in Tehsil Sargodha, the formal distribution of ration would commence in tehsils of the district, and by March 15, rations would be provided to nearly two hundred thousand registered households at their homes.
