LAHORE: The Punjab Chief Secretary has directed all the deputy commissioners to ensure the availability of food items at officially-fixed rates and mobilize price control magistrates in the field to provide relief to the people during the holy month of Ramzan.
Punjab CS Zahid Akhtar Zaman gave this directive while addressing a video-link meeting of all divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners at the Civil Secretariat here on Friday. The meeting reviewed measures for price control and provision of free flour to deserving people.
The Chief Secretary said that providing relief to the people in Ramzan is the first priority of the government, adding that deputy commissioners should closely monitor the prices, demand and supply of commodities.
The Chief Secretary warned that the profiteers would be dealt with sternly. He mentioned that due to effective measures, the process of distribution of free flour is going well and more than 1.3 million flour bags were distributed among the deserving people across the province on Thursday.
The Secretary Food gave a detailed briefing to the meeting. He said that 112,000 metric tons of wheat has been issued to flour mills so far for supply of free flour. He said that more than 5.5 million flour bags have been distributed free of cost to the deserving people in five days. The Chairman PITB, all divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners participated in the meeting through video link.
