The Government must prepare contingency plan to meet the shortage of essential daily use items the desperate situation demand desperate measures and the goods governance demand that no one should be allowed to make profit from the helpless consumers. The prices of 53 essential items of daily use have started swirling up in the midst of the worst-ever flood hit Pakistan.
As the floods have affected about one fourth of the entire agriculture land and displaced over 20 million peoples depending on the agriculture and livestock farming. Hundreds of thousands of livestock heads have perished, food crops flushed away and roads, transport networks collapsed. In the coming weeks, there is likely to be increase in the prices of essential items. Already most of the essential items, prices are out the reach of the ordinary citizens fruit and vegetables are in short supply and their prices are skywriting.
It is time that federal and provincial governments should establish food supply prices control authority, which will be responsible to monitor hoarding and short supply of essential items and their demand requirement on scientific lines the existing system of price control at districts levels has miserably failed to protect the consumers and in checking the increase in prices. The government must replace those committees, departments, which are not equipped with modern knowledge and tool of administration and operation.
There is no authentic data at each district level to determine the consumptions of various items of daily use and their stock positions. There are reports of criminals looting the relief goods in Sindh and also depriving the floods affected persons of their livestocks. The civil government must co-ordinate with the Pakistan Army to protect the peoples from such incident .