Rawalpindi:
It is estimated that 70-80% of merchants in Rawalpindi district have suspended sugar that has run prices in the inner city to between RS190 and RS200 per year. Kg and to RS210 in depth areas.
Many shop owners, although keeping in stock, have now reserved sugar for long -time customers, refusing to sell to unknown buyers because of the threat of heavy fines, challenge and shopping closures. The deficiency has deteriorated further in the middle of independence day’s festivities and holidays.
Salim Pervaiz Butt, the president of the grocery association, says store owners are ready to sell sugar to RS173 per day. Kg, provided that the government via the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and Price Control Magistrates supply them to them to a wholesale speed of RS165 per year. Kilogram.
“If shop owners in the open market buy sugar for RS176 per kg, they cannot sell it to RS173,” he said. “Our only remaining option is to stop selling sugar completely. The government and DC do not see it as their duty to deliver sugar to the controlled speed.
The administration insists that its only directive is the official price of RS173 per year. Kg and that shop owners are free to buy sugar at any cost and from any source. But if they do not sell at the official rate, their stores are sealed, heavy fines and legal cases are introduced. “
