Islamabad, July 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tareen has urged the respective District Administrations and departments to take stern measures to keep the prices of essential items including vegetables in check on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha to eliminate undue profiteering. He was chairing a meeting of National Price Monitoring Committee in Islamabad. The Finance Minister constituted a working group under the umbrella of NPMC to workout measures for bringing price stability in basic commodities by building strategic reserves to ensure availability of basic commodities at affordable price. The meeting was briefed that a slight increase of 0.07 percent in weekly Sensitive Price Index indicates price stability as compared to the previous weeks.
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