SHEIKHUPURA - Human Right International (HRI) Chairman Syed Anwer Aleemi said that the Price Control Committee (PCC) turned out to be useless and ineffective to control the prices of daily-use items and check profiteering and hoarding during the holy month of Ramazan.
Talking to this scribe here the other day, he said that the members of Price Control Committee didn’t bother to realise their obligation as envisaged in the PCC manifesto. He alleged that the District Coordination Officer (DCO) had never convened the meeting to review the prices of commodities, adding that it was the absence of any price checking mechanism which had resulted in the skyrocketing prices of the daily-use items.
The HRI chairman pointed out that the mutton was being sold in the market at Rs550 per kg while the beef price was not less than Rs300 per kg. He said that pulses and vegetable prices had been on the constant rise with every passing day and it seemed as if the PCC was in a deep slumber to notice these trends.
Had the PCC performs its duties according to its manifesto the situation would have not been that difficult in the holy month of Ramazan,” he lamented.
Anwer Aleemi said that Ramazan bazaars also failed to attract consumers, as was claimed, due to the sale of substandard items and the prices which were not less than the open markets.
The consumers have also lost faith in the government’s claims that why they have no charm for the much-chanted Ramazan bazaars,” he pointed out. The HRI chairman urged the DCO to call the PCC meeting on a regular basis to check the prices of daily0use items and discourage profiteering and hoarding.