National
May 8, 2021
RAWALPINDI: After Eid-ul-Fitr, the government is going to launch investigations against poultry, ghee/cooking oil and other sectors related to eatable items to note why they have increased prices.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) will investigate these sectors, Special Assistant to Punjab Chief Minister for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said this while talking to media persons during her visit to the Haidry Chowk Sasta Ramazan Bazaar here on Friday. She said: “We don’t have any enemy except inflation. We are fighting profiteers and hoarders.”
She said PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif wants to go to foreign countries for relaxation, therefore he contacted courts. “We are sad to impose a lockdown, but we prefer people’s health to everything else,” she said and advised people to follow SOPs properly to ease the lockdown after Eid-ul-Fitr.
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Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan. PHOTO: FILE
RAWALPINDI:
Special Assistant to Punjab Chief Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the provincial government had established 364 Sasta Ramazan bazaars across Punjab as the government wanted to provide essential items to the people at cheap rates. The objective was that each sasta bazaar should benefit approximately 50,000 people. Dr Awan made these observations after inaugurating a sasta bazaar in Shamsaabad on Satuday.
She later addressed a press conference at arts council where she said the Punjab government had given Rs 7 billion subsidy in Ramazan bazaars. A 10 kgs flour bag is available for Rs 375 while sugar is being sold at Rs 85 per kg in these markets.
Retailers say that they were having intermittent and limited wheat flour supplies for the last four weeks before Ramazan but the supplies totally dried up at the advent of the month of fasting. File
LAHORE: Sugar and wheat flour have gone missing from the shelves of the most of retail shops in the provincial metropolis as the government is focusing on maintaining supplies to its Sasta Ramazan bazaars.
Retailers say that they were having intermittent and limited wheat flour supplies for the last four weeks before Ramazan but the supplies totally dried up at the advent of the month of fasting.
‘Local markets to help curb inflation in Pindi’
Approval accorded to set up vegetable, fruit, flower markets in Ring Road Industrial Zone
As many as 330 Ramazan Bazaars and 25 Model Bazaars will be set across the province. PHOTO: MOHAMMAD AZEEM/EXPRESS
RAWALPINDI:
Rawalpindi District Market Committee Chairman Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed has said that formal approval has been accorded to set up vegetable, fruit and flower markets outside the city in Rawat Ring Road Industrial Zone this year.
The news was welcomed by traders and middlemen who expressed their appreciation and approval. These three markets along with Rawat Industrial Zone will be set up by the end of this year.