Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration will make all-out effort to ensure provision of food items and other essential commodities to people at cheaper rates during Ramazan for which eight Sasta Bazaars and 35 Fair Price Shops would be set up, sources in ICT said while talking to this scribe.
The civil administration and police will hold joint surveillance on hoarding and profiteering and no one would be allowed to violate the rules and regulations, the sources said. They said that ICT has decided to set up eight Sasta Bazaars instead of four in different areas where fruits, dates, vegetables, chicken meat and other essential items would be made available to people on less than the market rates. Stalls of Utility Stores Corporation would also be set up in Sasta Bazaars to facilitate people, sources said.
They said that the ICT administration has formed 16 special price-checking teams in the city and rural areas. Islamabad Police would ensure foolproof security for Sasta Bazaars to give complete peace of mind to shoppers in the bazaars. The food department of the ICT is reviewing to meet the demands of fruits and vegetables in the market, while meetings were held with traders of Sabzi Mandi to ensure sufficient increase in the supply of food items during Ramazan, they said. It was being stressed that supply of food items from other parts of the country must increase keeping in view the demands of consumers so that supply and demand issue might not cause any shortage of food items, they added.
Orders would be circulated to magistrates to start daily price checking in their areas and take stern action against the profiteers and hoarders, while the Food Department was asked to issue daily rate list of fruits and vegetables and in this regard shopkeepers would be asked to display rate list prominently and charge accordingly. The ICT officials said that administration is also in process of holding meetings with the millers, meat sellers and traders who will hopefully provide flour bags, ghee and other items at the reduced rates.
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