The Sindh Cabinet has reduced the release price of wheat from 5,000 rupees to 4,500 rupees per 40 kilograms.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in Karachi today.

The cabinet also fixed the 15th of this month as the start of the sugarcane crushing season.

It approved an additional grant of over 502 million rupees for five Public Health Engineering and Rural Development Department schemes in Jamshoro during the current financial year.

Meanwhile, the cabinet announced a public holiday on Monday for the Hindu community on the occasion of Diwali.