Punjab Minister for Chief Minister's Inspection Team, Colonel Shuja Khanzada (Retd) has said that a comprehensive programme has been evolved to provide essential items to people at lower rates.
According to which, he said the government was giving a subsidy of Rs 2 billion for the provision of pulses and sugar to citizen at concessionary rates.
He was talking to a delegation of citizens at his residence on Sunday.
The minister said that special powers of 1st class magistrate have been delegated to revenue officers, adding that magistrates would conduct raids at markets daily to check the prices of daily use items.
He said that sugar and pulses would be supplied to the masses at Rs 10 per Kg lesser than the market price.
Shuja said that 10-kg Atta bag was already being provided at Rs 128 lesser than the market rates. He said that the scope of this programme was also being extended so that maximum number of people could be benefited.
Punjab Chief Minister, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has constituted a committee headed by the Provincial Food Minister to monitor the prices of daily use goods on daily basis, he added.