Govt to provide Rs25bn subsidy on essential commodities at Utility Stores: Farrukh Habib

Govt to provide Rs25bn subsidy on essential commodities at Utility Stores: Farrukh Habib
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Summary "Govt will go to any extent to facilitate masses especially the poor and salaried class."

FAISALABAD (Dunya News) - Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib says the government has decided to provide twenty-five billion rupees subsidy on essential commodities at 4,900 Utility Stores.

Addressing a news conference in Faisalabad on Saturday, he said the government has also decided to computerize Utility Stores and in the first phase, about one thousand Utility Stores will be computerized.

Farrukh Habib said the government will go to any extent to facilitate the masses especially the poor and salaried class.

About Kashmir, he said that Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan is a true ambassador of the oppressed people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir as he has bravely highlighted the Kashmir cause at every forum.

The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting strongly criticized the opposition parties saying that they are weakening the Kashmir cause while ignoring the national interest during their election campaign in Azad Kashmir. 

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