‘Efforts being made to implement price control’

Punjab govt has made a programme for online home delivery of fruits, vegetables

LAHORE: All-out efforts will be made to ensure the implementation of a price control mechanism, said Punjab Minister for Industries and Trade Mian Aslam Iqbal.

He was presiding over a meeting of Task Force for Price Control on Friday. The meeting discussed implementation regarding the price control mechanism, monitoring of prices of essential items and performance of price control magistrates. “The Punjab government has made a programme for online home delivery of fruits, vegetables and daily use items.

“In the first phase of this programme, vegetables and fruits would be provided to people at their homes whereas in the second phase daily use items would be provided.”

The minister added that the programme would start from Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Multan.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 9^th, 2019.