PM shutters market committees in Punjab
Provincial authorities have also been ordered to reconstitute the agricultural marketing regulatory body
Prime Minister Imran Khan addressing a ceremony in Islamabad after witnessing an agreement signed between Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government and World Bank for ECO Tourism. SCREENGRAB
LAHORE:
Irked by reports of widespread corruption, Prime Minister Imran Khan has dissolved the market committees in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Furthermore, the premier has also ordered provincial authorities to reconstitute Punjab Agricultural Marketing Regulatory Authority (PAMRA). Officials familiar with the development said the provincial regulatory authority will undergo a complete reshuffle.
The move comes after provincial and federal authorities uncovered evidence of corruption in the market committees. It was further revealed that heads of several market committees had presented fake credentials before the government to represent farmers. On t
The Chief Secretaries Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa briefed Prime Minister Imran Khan about the existing regulatory mechanisms of the provinces for the establishment of fruit and vegetable markets.
‘Developers of illegal societies to be penalised’
Lahore
February 10, 2021
LAHORE:Punjab Minister for Law and Cooperatives Raja Basharat has said that those who developed illegal housing societies across the province would have to face punishment and on the directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan as protection to the savings of the poor people would be ensured.
He stated this while chairing a meeting of the National Coordination Committee for Housing, Construction and Development on Tuesday. The committee considered a plan of action to launch a crackdown on illegal housing societies in the province. Raja Basharat said that decades-old illegal societies had not been regularised so far and no action has been taken against anyone while savings of millions of people had sunk into these societies. He said that the committee would determine the causes of illegal societies and private and government officials involved therein.