Govt urged to make essential goods available at utility stores

MANSEHRA: The Awani Nation Party (ANP) has demanded the government to ensure the availability of the essential goods being sold at the subsided prices at the utility stores in Oghi tehsil and its suburbs.

“Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced Rs16 billion subsidies on the kitchen and other essential goods, but people of Oghi are deprived of this relief as such items are not available at the utility stores,” Munawar Khan Hassanzai, a local leader of ANP, told reporters.

He said that the ordinary goods were widely dumped at the utility stores in Oghi tehsil but essential kitchen items and goods on which the PM gave subsidies in the Ramazan were not available.

“Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawmakers, who are appointed as watchdogs by the PM to have a check on ambiguity-free supply of subsidized items, should regularly visit stores and make sure people are being benefited from the scheme,” Hassanzai said.

He said that owing to the record inflation the people’s purchasing power had declined significantly and such relief in prices announced by the prime minister should reach every citizen.

Meanwhile, the police have recovered a vehicle stolen by the car-lifters from here early this month.

The police team led by the police traffic officer, Sardar Mohammad Arif, signalled a vehicle’s driver to stop, but he managed to flee.