{"id":62345,"date":"2020-03-07T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62345"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T10:47:58","slug":"punjab-govt-give-relief-by-setting-up-fair-price-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-give-relief-by-setting-up-fair-price-shops.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt to give relief by setting up fair price shops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has announced setting up \u2018fair price shops\u2019 throughout the province to provide relief to the common people, a news source reported. As per the publication, these shops will initially offer fruits and vegetables at government-controlled rates \u2013 with the pilot project beginning from Samanabad town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fpcci-urges-govt-to-ensure-gas-supply-to-industries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"FPCCI urges govt to ensure gas supply to industries (opens in a new tab)\">FPCCI urges govt to ensure gas supply to industries<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial Minister for Industries and Trade Mian Aslam Iqbal chaired a meeting during which the said decision was made. Agriculture Secretary Wasif Khurshid, Industries and Trade secretary, officials from the Urban Unit and other relevant departments were also present during the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-invites-chinese-industries-relocate-setups-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PM invites Chinese industries to relocate setups to Pakistan (opens in a new tab)\">PM invites Chinese industries to relocate setups to Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting decided that fruits and vegetable shops will be set up in the first phase of the programme. The selection of shops for the programme will be conducted transparently, according to the regulations. The owners of the chosen shops will buy commodities from the wholesale market and sell them according to the government-regulated prices to receive monthly salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sustainable-energy-initiative-industries-launched.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"UNIDO\u2019s \u2018Sustainable Energy Initiative for Industries\u2019 launched (opens in a new tab)\">UNIDO\u2019s \u2018Sustainable Energy Initiative for Industries\u2019 launched<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that the programme would be extended later to other parts of the province and digital price boards will be fixed in the hired shops. He also mentioned that the government would provide a mega <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/banks-asked-to-provide-relief-package-for-malakand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"relief package (opens in a new tab)\">relief package<\/a> during the holy month of Ramazan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has announced setting up \u2018fair price shops\u2019 throughout the province to provide relief to the common people, a news source reported. As per the publication, these shops will initially offer fruits and vegetables at government-controlled rates \u2013 with the pilot project beginning from Samanabad town. Read: FPCCI urges govt to ensure gas supply to industries Provincial Minister for Industries and Trade Mian Aslam Iqbal chaired a meeting during which the said decision was made. Agriculture Secretary Wasif Khurshid, Industries and Trade secretary, officials from the Urban Unit and other relevant departments were also present during the meeting. Read: PM invites Chinese industries to relocate setups to Pakistan The meeting decided that fruits and vegetable shops will be set up in the first phase of the programme. The selection of shops for the programme will be conducted transparently, according to the regulations. The owners of the chosen shops will buy commodities from the wholesale market and sell them according to the government-regulated prices to receive monthly salaries. Read: UNIDO\u2019s \u2018Sustainable Energy Initiative for Industries\u2019 launched The minister said that the programme would be extended later to other parts of the province and digital price boards will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":61600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[22056,22058,22057,3237,22059],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-fair-price-shops","9":"tag-industries-and-trade","10":"tag-provide-relief","11":"tag-punjab-government","12":"tag-ramazan","13":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab govt to give relief by setting up fair price shops - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has announced setting up \u2018fair price shops\u2019 throughout the province to provide relief to the common people\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-give-relief-by-setting-up-fair-price-shops.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab govt to give relief by setting up fair price shops - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has announced setting up \u2018fair price shops\u2019 throughout the province to provide relief to the common people\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-give-relief-by-setting-up-fair-price-shops.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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