AGL 40.00 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
AIRLINK 129.06 Decreased By ▼ -0.47 (-0.36%)
BOP 6.75 Increased By ▲ 0.07 (1.05%)
CNERGY 4.49 Decreased By ▼ -0.14 (-3.02%)
DCL 8.55 Decreased By ▼ -0.39 (-4.36%)
DFML 40.82 Decreased By ▼ -0.87 (-2.09%)
DGKC 80.96 Decreased By ▼ -2.81 (-3.35%)
FCCL 32.77 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
FFBL 74.43 Decreased By ▼ -1.04 (-1.38%)
FFL 11.74 Increased By ▲ 0.27 (2.35%)
HUBC 109.58 Decreased By ▼ -0.97 (-0.88%)
HUMNL 13.75 Decreased By ▼ -0.81 (-5.56%)
KEL 5.31 Decreased By ▼ -0.08 (-1.48%)
KOSM 7.72 Decreased By ▼ -0.68 (-8.1%)
MLCF 38.60 Decreased By ▼ -1.19 (-2.99%)
NBP 63.51 Increased By ▲ 3.22 (5.34%)
OGDC 194.69 Decreased By ▼ -4.97 (-2.49%)
PAEL 25.71 Decreased By ▼ -0.94 (-3.53%)
PIBTL 7.39 Decreased By ▼ -0.27 (-3.52%)
PPL 155.45 Decreased By ▼ -2.47 (-1.56%)
PRL 25.79 Decreased By ▼ -0.94 (-3.52%)
PTC 17.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.96 (-5.2%)
SEARL 78.65 Decreased By ▼ -3.79 (-4.6%)
TELE 7.86 Decreased By ▼ -0.45 (-5.42%)
TOMCL 33.73 Decreased By ▼ -0.78 (-2.26%)
TPLP 8.40 Decreased By ▼ -0.66 (-7.28%)
TREET 16.27 Decreased By ▼ -1.20 (-6.87%)
TRG 58.22 Decreased By ▼ -3.10 (-5.06%)
UNITY 27.49 Increased By ▲ 0.06 (0.22%)
WTL 1.39 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.72%)
BR100 10,445 Increased By 38.5 (0.37%)
BR30 31,189 Decreased By -523.9 (-1.65%)
KSE100 97,798 Increased By 469.8 (0.48%)
KSE30 30,481 Increased By 288.3 (0.95%)

Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja has announced to supply black gram and lemon fruit on subsidised rate in 318 Ramazan bazaars and Fair Price shops installed in the Ramazan bazaars by Agriculture Department. This step will help redress the public complaints regarding shortage of both these food items in Ramazan bazaars.
While reviewing the implementation plan of Ramazan Package here at Civil Secretariat, Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja asked all the District Co-ordination Officers and 1756 Price Control Magistrates to work hard in monitoring the quality, price and supply position of the perishable as well as non-perishable edibles and especially control any price-hike by the commission agents so that the fruits of subsidy given by Punjab government to the common man should reach them in the real sense and the people rightly feel relief from artificial profiteering during sacred month of Ramazan.
He directed that the consumers should not be asked to produce their computerised national identity cards for purchasing sugar or any other daily use item because it discourages them to make use of the government subsidy for no reason. The meeting was told that 405 metric ton sugar has been sold in Ramazan bazaars during the last week and the government has managed to provide 15000 ton sugar on subsidised rate to the people of the province during Ramazan.
The ACS asked the officials to improve queue management for men, women, senior citizens and disabled persons separately. Secretary Agriculture Punjab Dr Pervaiz Ahmed Khan and Special Secretary Agri Marketing Dr Farah Masood presented detailed briefings regarding demand and supply situation of the daily use edibles all over the province which was found satisfactory.
Additional Secretary Information & Culture Punjab Syed Tahir Raza Hamdani apprised the meeting of public complaints regarding substandard fruits and vegetables being provided to the common man in Ramazan bazaars. The Additional Chief Secretary directed the concerned officials to take stringent action against the suppliers of substandard items instead of apprehending the retailers so that only better quality essential items would be brought for sale to the consumers in Ramazan bazaars.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2016

Comments

Comments are closed.