‘People can buy subsidised items from USC without long queues’
National
April 21, 2021
Islamabad: People can buy all subsidized items including ‘sugar’ and ‘ghee’ in bulk without long queues and there will be a strict check on shopkeepers and hoarders who will not be allowed to buy these subsidized items in bulk, Utility Stores Corporation (USC) Regional Manager (Islamabad) Naveed Nasrullah told ‘The News’ here on Tuesday.
Utility Stores Corporation (USC) Managing Director Omar Lodhi has directed all store managers to provide all eatable items to needy people without long queues.
The situation of long queues in the federal capital, Islamabad was better than Rawalpindi. There are long queues of consumers in front of every store in Rawalpindi but the situation was quite different in Islamabad stores. There are total of 78 government-run utility stores in the Islamabad region where the consumers are buying all eatable items including ‘sugar’ and ‘ghee’ in
Subsidised items available at USC without long queues
Islamabad
April 21, 2021
Islamabad : People can buy all subsidized items including ‘sugar’ and ‘ghee’ in bulk without long queues and there will be a strict check on shopkeepers and hoarders who will not be allowed to buy these subsidized items in bulk, Utility Stores Corporation (USC) Regional Manager (Islamabad) Naveed Nasrullah told ‘The News’ here on Tuesday.
Utility Stores Corporation (USC) Managing Director Omar Lodhi has directed all store managers to provide all eatable items to needy people without long queues.
The situation of long queues in the federal capital, Islamabad was better than Rawalpindi. There are long queues of consumers in front of every store in Rawalpindi but the situation was quite different in Islamabad stores. There are total of 78 government-run utility stores in the Islamabad region where the consumers are buying all eatable items including ‘sugar’ and ‘ghee’ in bulk.
National
April 20, 2021
LAHORE: PML-N Punjab spokesperson Azma Bukhari expressed concern over the sale of substandard food items in Ramazan bazaars.
In a statement issued here on Monday, she alleged that the government pretended to provide Rs7 billion subsidy for Ramazan bazaars. “The Punjab government has given subsidy only on sugar and flour in Ramazan bazaars,” she added.
She claimed that a single truck of sugar was brought to every Ramazan bazaar, which was not enough for thousands of citizens of that area resulting in long lines. This clearly showed the poor management skills of the incompetent and selected rulers, she said.
No food items at sasta bazaar in Gulberg
National
April 20, 2021
PESHAWAR: Residents of Gulberg locality near the cantonment on Monday complained that the government had failed to establish a Sasta Bazaar in their locality despite the pitching of tents along the roads for the last more than four days.
Several area residents told The News that the Sasta Bazaar was a good step for providing some relief to the people but the people responsible for organizing it had handled it poorly.
A milkman in the area, Rahim Gul, said that he regularly visited the tents to check whether or not the food items had been provided to the Sasta Bazaar for onward sale to the masses.
Serious anomalies in Rs450m agri items procurement
National
April 18, 2021
PESHAWAR: Serious anomalies and procedure lapses have been detected in the procurement process of Rs450 million items in the Agriculture Extension merged area.
The evaluation of bids has not been carried out in accordance with the bid solicitation documents and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (KPPRA) Rules.
The KPPRA has directed the provincial Agriculture Department to re-evaluate all bids.
Samiullah Bangash, chairman of the Agriculture Contractors Association of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, told this correspondent that Rs450 million was withdrawn despite KPPRA restraining order. He said that 38 contractors submitted tenders, while the department disqualified 37 technically and awarded the contract to one company at preferential rates.