Commissioner Karachi Muhammad Saleem Rajput chaired a meeting of all Assistant Commissioners and mukhtars assigned to control the prices of essential food items fixed by the city administration at his office on Thursday. The meeting reviewed the progress of the price control campaign launched by the city administration.
The Commissioner asked the officers not to show any leniency towards the profiteers and ensure food items are available to the common people on the prices fixed by the city administration.
The Assistant Commissioners and mukhtiarkar submitted their reports on the efforts they are making to control the prices. Commissioner showed his dissatisfaction over the progress of the campaign and said there is great need to make all out efforts to ensure that consumers have all essential food items at reasonable prices as have been fixed by the commissioner office with the coordination and cooperation of the representative traders and concerned whole sellers and retailers’ associations.
Commissioner warned the officers not to leave any stone unturned to make the price control campaign initiated for providing relief to consumers successful. He said all officers concerned will ensure that the prices are checked daily by them and are covered markets in their subdivisions’ effectively . skillfully and expertly.
They were also asked to submit their performance report daily to the Additional Commissioner I Sehar Iftikhar .
