Rs 7.8 Mln Fine Slapped On Profiteers During 2019
Sumaira FH Published September 29, 2019 | 03:10 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th Sep, 2019 ) :The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has imposed a fine Rs 7.8 million on many shops operating in the Federal capital for not complying official rates and overcharging customers during the ongoing year.
To ensure the price control and facilitate the public, the price magistrates were paying regular visits in their respective areas, and violators were being penalized, an official source in ICT told APP.
Daily auction proceedings were being monitored regularly at I-11 Sabzi Mandi by the Magistrates to help the buyers for purchasing fruits and vegetable on control prices, he added.
All the shopkeepers had been directed to display official rate list issued by the city administration of essential commodities and sell them accordingly, he said.
Citizens were asked to lodge complaints against profiteers on Pakistan Citizens' Portal App for its early redressal.
Meanwhile, the capital dwellers had complained that the officials were paying surprise visits only that provided an opportunity to profiteers of fleecing the public.
Sadia Ali, a resident of Sector G-13/1 while expressing her concern said that the people living in the outskirts of Islamabad were being overcharged with impunity as every shop keeper has its own rate list and everyone was misleading the buyers.
"It was not possible for me to go G-9 market, some 10 kilo meter away from G-13/1 that force me to buy things from the local market," she regretted. Babar Ali, another buyer from Aabpara market urged the quarter concerned to ensure the display of official price list at every shopkeeper in the capital markets to facilitate the general public.
"I fully support the on-going social media drive to avoid buying high-rate fruits, as these fruits were not in access of a layman, he said adding that the campaign could be an eye opener for hoarders to avoid the malpractice".
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