DC Larkana chairs a meeting of District Price Control Committee.

LARKANA -- Deputy Commissioner Larkana Ms. Rabiaya Siyal chaired a meeting of District Price Control Committee at her office on Friday to review the prices of essential commodities during Ramzan Sharif.

The DC warned the hoarders, profiteers and black-marketers to avoid creating any artificial shortage of the commodities else stern legal action would be taken against them. She said that the district administration would make all necessary arrangements for supply of essential commodities to consumers at fixed rates.

The Deputy Commissioner hoped that with the co-operation of business community, the prices of essential commodities would be maintained at reasonable level. She also asked them to sell their items in accordance with the rates fixed by the committee and display price list at the conspicuous place at their shops. Besides, they should declare stock of the stuffs and maintain correct weight and measure, she added.

The officials of the Market Committee and Bureau of Supply and Prices were directed to provide price list of the commodities to the shopkeepers daily. Special magistrates will conduct checking frequently to ensure implementation of the directives and to bring the defaulters to book, she said.

The DC Larkana directed the Assistant Commissioners and Taluka Mukhtiarkars to check the prices of essential commodities and nobody would be allowed to hoard sugar and commodities, she added.

She asked...