Lahore, June 08, 2022 (PPI-OT):Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz inaugurated the chief minister’s price dashboard for online monitoring of prices of essential commodities and price control activities in each district on Wednesday. Online monitoring of the performance of price control committees at the district level has also started and the CM will personally monitor the performance of districts for price control through the dashboard daily.
A meeting was held in Model Town under the chair of CM Hamza Shahbaz to review the price control mechanism. The meeting was attended by commissioners and deputy commissioners of all the districts through a video link. The CM gave necessary instructions to the administrative 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.
Addressing the meeting, the CM said that the performance of DCs, ACs and price control committees would be linked with price control in their respective areas. The good performing officers will be encouraged while poor performers will be held accountable.
The DCs will be bound to upload the prices of essential commodities on the dashboard at 10 AM, he added. He also announced to launch toll-free number for registering public complaints about the prices of essential commodities and directed to launch the facility in the next three days.
The CM directed the ministers, political assistants and political partners to conduct field visits and remarked that districts would be assigned to the ministers and political assistants for field visits. 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 by sitting in the rooms.
The common man is in trouble and we have to give relief to them by working jointly; the CM added and explained that the Punjab government would write a formal letter to the federal government for not allowing the sugar export.
The CM maintained that the government would increase the wheat quota of well-functioning mills, adding that the administrative officers have been directed to ensure an uninterrupted supply of subsidized flour. He further directed to make the supply mechanism of urea fertilizer more efficient across the province.
Every possible step will be taken to benefit the masses, he spoke. In view of the shortage of tomatoes and onions in the coming days, a plan should be prepared in advance to deal with the situation; he commented and asked the political allies and administrative officers to go into the field to garner facts.
The people are in trouble; I do not care if the screams of those responsible for inflation come out as I would go to the last extent to ease the lives of the common man, the CM concluded. Sardar Awais Leghari, Ch. Muhammad Iqbal, Bilal Yaseen, Ata Tarar, Muawiyah Azam, Malik Nadeem Kamran, Zeeshan Rafiq, Ramzan Siddiq Bhatti, Saira Afzal, political assistants, chief secretary, IG police, secretaries and senior officials attended the meeting.
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Office of the Chief Minister of Punjab
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