Hamza Shahbaz inaugurates Model Sasta Bazaar

RAWALPINDI: Member of National Assembly Hamza Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that the Punjab government was setting up 'Model Sasta Bazaars' in the province for providing relief to the people.

He was talking to newsmen after inaugurating Model Sasta Bazaar at Liaqat Bagh here. Members of National Assembly Malik Shakeel Awan and Malik Ibrar, members of Provincial Assembly of Punjab Shehryar Riaz and Malik Iftikhar, officers of District Administration, representatives of traders community and a large number of PML-N workers and citizens attended the inaugural ceremony. The model bazaar has been constructed at a cost of Rs 26 million and is spread over 20 kanal area.

Hamza said that daily use items would be provided to the people on affordable and controlled prices at the Bazaars.

He said the Punjab government had also decided to give special subsidy on different essential items to the people during Ramazan-ul-Mubarak.

Besides Lahore and Rawalpindi, model sasta bazaars would also be established in other districts of the province which will remain open after the month of Ramazan, four days a week after, he added. Hamza Shahbaz said stalls at the Bazaar had been allotted through a transparent balloting to the shopkeepers.

He appreciated setting up five separate special stalls for women in the Sasta Bazaar. He asked DCO Saqib Zafar to increase the number of wheel chairs for disabled in the Bazaar. He applauded the arrangements of security, parking, cleanliness and stalls in the model sasta bazaar.

He said that administration should provide every possible facility to the consumers who will visit the Bazaar.