Availability Ministryof Supply Domestic trade: ration goods and subsidized bread for ration card holders, and the ministry is currently keen to provide local bread to non-ration card holders at the actual cost, within the framework of the ministry’s keenness to reduce the burden on citizens. In the markets, and once this system is implemented, the citizen who does not have a ration card can obtain local bread at cost price by making it available smart card Prepaid for those who are not registered in the subsidy system, and the Ministry is scheduled to start implementing the experiment in a trial manner, starting from tomorrow, Wednesday, in one of the outlets to reach a way to offer bread at the actual cost easily and conveniently for the citizen .
The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, led by Dr. Ali Al-Moselhi, Minister of Supply, is keen to provide subsidized bread to nearly 72 million citizens registered on ration cards, as 5 loaves are dispensed per day for each citizen registered in the card at the price of a loaf of 5 piasters. The ministry is also currently seeking to provide local bread. For citizens who do not hold ration cards at a cost price and less than the tourist news within the framework of the ministry’s keenness to provide good bread at a low price. The price of a loaf for non-ration card holders is set to be 90 piasters, but so far the ministry has not officially decided the price of the loaf for non-ration card holders. .
Abdullah Ghorab, head of the General Division of Bakeries at the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce, had confirmed that the division submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, regarding allowing municipal bakeries that produce subsidized bread to also offer “free” bread at the actual cost of producing the loaf, for non-holders of ration cards, and that The Ministry is in the process of finalizing the study of the proposal, and it is scheduled that implementation will take place soon.
Abdullah Ghorab added to “The Seventh Day” that in the event of implementation, a smart card will be made available at different prices, which the citizen can purchase from post offices according to his needs for bread and go to municipal bakeries that wish to offer “free” bread at the actual cost, in addition to continuing to offer subsidized bread. A category of 5 piasters per loaf for ration card holders, pointing out that the aim of this is to provide free bread to non-ration card holders at the actual cost without exaggerating the prices, and it is scheduled that the loaf will be offered at the free price according to the actual cost of the loaf..
