ICT admin sets up 18 stalls

Sugar to be available at a lower rate of Rs62 per kilogramme (kg) at 18 sugar stalls all over Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD: Sugar will be available at a lower rate of Rs62 per kilogramme (kg) at 18 sugar stalls all over Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). “This is against the market rate of Rs85 per kg,” Assistant Director Food Muhammad Afzal Khan told The Express Tribune on Sunday.

These stalls have been set up by the ICT Administration in the main markets (markaz) of F-6, F-7, F-8, F-10, G-7, G-8, G-9, G-10, G-11, I-9, and I-10. The stalls have also been set up at I-8 Mughal Market and in G-6 in Aabpara.

Khan added that stalls selling subsidized sugar had also been set up in rural areas such as Bhara Kahu, Tarnol, Golra and Ali Pur Farash, among other areas. “Customers would be able to buy two kgs of sugar at a time,” Khan said.

The administration has reached an agreement with the Trading Corporation of Pakistan to buy 3000 tonnes of special quota of sugar. As part of this agreement, Khan said, 300 tonnes of sugar had already been brought in from Karachi.

“We will continue to distribute this subsidised sugar for at least two months,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 12^th, 2010.