City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has announced that CDGK would issue official rates of essential commodities before Ramazan, and requested the wholesalers and retailers to avoid profiteering during the holy month.
Addressing a press conference on Friday in the Conference Room at Civic Center, he said that the city government had assigned 55 magistrates for taking actions against the profiteers.
He warned that if the profiteers did not comply with official rates then the CDGK has the legal powers to impose Rs 15000 penalty on them on the spot besides sending them to jail for six months.
Mustafa hoped that traders, retailers and wholesalers would cooperate with the city government to keep the prices of essential commodities in line with the official rates.
Criticising the media, the Nazim said that none had taken the notice of cleaning of storm water drain being carried out by the city government at the Bath Island, adding that a Chinese firm is to undertake laying of 48 diameters of sewerage pipelines at the Bath Island. The proposed sewerage pipeline will be laid at either side of Nehr-e-Khayam while work on it will start shortly, he added.
Mustafa apprised that main trunk at the Bath Island was for the first time being changed by the incumbent city government that had been laid in 1960, after being collapsed near Clifton bridge during recent monsoon rains. The trunk will soon be constructed, he added.
The Nazim said that the CDGK indiscriminately had taken actions against the illegal construction erected on storm water drains near Glass Tower and restored the flow of drainage.
Regarding the new traffic arrangements, he said city government and town nazims along with the traffic police had chalked out a plan to overcome the traffic problems in the city. The plan will provide a sigh of relief to citizens, he maintained. Mustafa hoped that the uplift projects being carried out by the city government would not cause the traffic congestion.