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The National Assembly has been summoned to meet on Monday, the 1st April, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. in the Parliament House, Islamabad
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Provision of food items especially during Ramadan should be ensured: NA Speaker

Thursday, 15th April, 2021
Profiteering and creating artificial shortage of food items be dealt with sternly: NA speaker 
 
Speaker National Assembly  Asad Qaiser has remarked that provision of food items to masses at subsidized rates is the priority of this government. He also said that the equitable distribution of basic amenities on cheap rates would discourage  profiteering  mafias. He expressed these views while meeting with Managing Director  Utility Store Corporation who called on him today in Islamabad .
 
Speaker Asad Qaiser instructed the utility  store management to ensure proper mechanism  that only the needy people could get essential  items on subsidized rates. He also said that the utility  store management  should ensure that the subsidized items do not end on profiteering  mafia . He said that administration  at district level should handle the issues of artificial  costliness during this Ramadan. While responding  to briefing by MD Utility Store Corporation , Speaker appreciated the initiative of mobile bazar as around Fifty mobile bazaars are striving  to  cater the needs at their doorstep. He also instructed that all 1009 utility stores in KPK be extra vigilant that their subsidized items reach  to only needy hands.