Price monitoring dashboard launched

CM Hamza to observe measures against profiteering in each district

LAHORE:

Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz inaugurated a dashboard for online monitoring of prices of essential commodities and in each district on Wednesday.

Online monitoring of the performance of price control committees at the district level was also started by the CM through the dashboard.

CM Hamza chaired a meeting to review the price control mechanism. The meeting was attended by the commissioners and deputy commissioners through video link.

The CM gave instructions to the officers for price control and provision of relief to the masses. The meeting reviewed the price control activities and the relevant secretaries presented their reports.

The said while addressing the meeting that the performance of the DCs, assistant commissioners and price control committees would be evaluated on the basis of the activities to curb profiteering.

The DCs will be bound to upload the prices of essential commodities on the dashboard daily at 10am, he added.

He also announced a plan to launch a toll-free phone number for registering public complaints about the prices of essential commodities in the next three days.

The CM directed the ministers and political aides to conduct field visits and remarked that districts would be assigned to them for the purpose. "You should work hard to provide relief by conducting visits at the union council level," he said and maintained that ground realities cannot be understood while sitting in the rooms.

"The common people are facing difficulties and we have to give relief to them by working jointly," the CM added and explained.

The chief minister said Punjab government would write a letter to the federal government, urging it not to allow sugar export. The CM maintained that the government would increase the wheat quota of well-functioning mills, adding that the administrative officers had been directed to ensure uninterrupted supply of subsidised flour.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 9^th, 2022.