Hyderabad administration to set up bachat bazaars

HYDERABAD: Deputy Commissioner Hyderabad, Asif Ali Memon, has said the district administration was making sincere efforts to ensure that people get all the commodities at prices fixed by the government.

Addressing a news conference at Hyderabad Press Club here on Friday, Memon announced that his administration would set up `bachat bazaars' in the coming days.

The deputy commissioner said that they had established complaint centers in every fruits and vegetable markets in the city to ensure compliance with the official rates of commodities.

"If any consumer notices that a seller is charging higher than the approved rates he can register his complaint at the assigned points for official action," he said in reply to a question.

The DC asserted that before the introduction of the present commissionerate system there was no effective mechanism to monitor prices of commodities and to curb the profiteering.

"We have ensured that weights and measurements, agriculture and market committee departments work in tandem under the district administration to facilitate the people in Ramazan," he added.

To a question he informed that he had moved the request of providing subsidized wheat to Atta Chakkis along with the flour roller mills for convenience of the city's people.

"Atta Chakki owners met me before Ramazan and asked for approving the quota for them," he told, adding that the request was duly communicated to the authorities of the Food Department of Sindh Government.

The DC was hopeful that the subsidized wheat quota would be soon released to the Chakkis.

Talking about the law and order situation in Hyderabad district, which includes Tando Muhammad Khan, Matiari and Tando Allahyar besides the old Hyderabad, the DC said the police system was being streamlined under the new law.

He thanked the people of the city for maintaining religious harmony and wished that the same was reflected in every other city of Pakistan.