SWABI: Butchers here have been violating the tehsil municipal administration’s price list and overcharging the consumers without any check.

The consumers claimed here on Friday that the district administration had failed to stabilise prices of essential commodities during Ramazan.

The magistrates and food inspectors of four TMAs had set the official price of beef at Rs450 per kg and mutton at Rs850 per kg. However, since the start of Ramazan the butchers have been selling beef at Rs600 per kg and mutton at Rs1,200 per kg.

Iqbal Khan a resident, said he had complained to officials of the administration about high prices of meat, but they did not take action. Another resident Sardar Khan also made a similar complaint.

When contacted, the administration officials said no one was allowed to charge consumers in violation of the official price list.

KILLED: A man was killed by unidentified assailants here on Friday.

Rescue officials said Akbar Khan, 34, a resident of Aman Khot, was on the way to local market when unidentified persons opened fire on him in Spin Khani village, killing him on the spot. Kalu Khan police have registered the case.

EMPLOYEES RESTORED: Chota Lahor civil judge-III Mohammad Khalil Khan here on Friday suspended the orders for dismissal and change of rank of three work charge employees of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company and allowed them to perform duties in their previous status.

Wapda Lahore chairman, Wapda Islamabad chief executive, Wapda House Peshawar chief executive, and superintendent engineer and executive engineer, Swabi, and SDO Yar Hussain, Chota Lahor, have been directed to appear in the court on May 9, while implementation on the DG Pesco Letter No 1125-4 has been stayed.

Habibul Haq of Tordher, Aqil Rehman of Chota Lahor and Farhan Habib of Yar Hussain had filed the suit in the court.

MINIMUM WAGE: The low-income workers of private sector here have demanded the government to increase minimum wage in the upcoming budget according to the inflation rate.

In a meeting of Pakistan Workers Federation, they recalled that the monthly minimum wage was increased to Rs20,000 from Rs17,500 by the PTI government to mitigate the problems of low-income workers.

Shaukat Ali Anjum, PWF’s country coordinator, noted that the government could not fully implement its decision while the inflation continued to climb, which increased financial problems for the workers.

Published in Dawn, April 16th, 2022