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Express Tribune
02-03-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
No govt-sponsored Ramazan bazaars in Pindi
For the first time since 1985, Rawalpindi has not seen the establishment of government-sponsored Ramzan bazaars due to a severe financial crisis. The district administration has instead allocated eight locations where street vendors have been allowed to set up stalls under the banner of "Sasta Ramzan Bazaars." However, several densely populated areas, including Sadiqabad, Dhoke Hassu, Gulzar-e-Quaid, Chungi No 22, Morgah, Adiala Road and Chakri Road, have been excluded from the list of traditional Ramzan Bazaars. Unlike past years, these makeshift markets lack wholesale dealers, utility store stalls, or agriculture department kiosks. Additionally, no police personnel, district administration officials, or civil defence volunteers have been deployed for oversight. The vendors who usually sell in these areas have simply been designated as part of the "Sasta bazaars," where food items, including vegetables, fruits, and essential groceries, are reportedly being sold at high prices and in poor quality. This year, no additional price control magistrates have been appointed, leaving citizens at the mercy of market forces. Even the decades-old Committee Chowk Sunday bazaar has now been rebranded as a Ramzan bazaar, but without any government subsidies. Meanwhile, Rawalpindi Commissioner Aamir Rafiq chaired a meeting where the decision to declare these street markets as Ramzan bazaars was announced. He stated that similar bazaars have been set up across different tehsils, where essential goods will be available at wholesale rates. The designated locations for Ramzan facilitation markets include, Allama Iqbal Park, Haidari Chowk, Rawalpindi Cantt, Chohr Model Bazaar, Chak Beli Khan in Rawalpindi Cantt and the city. Similarly in Gujar Khan Service Road and Hayat Sir Road, Taxila's Deen Plaza and GT Road and Kahuta's Vegetable Market and Main Bazaar will host similar bazaars. The commissioner has assured that these markets will provide all necessary facilities, including dedicated sale points for sugar.
Express Tribune
02-03-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
No govt-sponsoredRamazan bazaars in Pindi
For the first time since 1985, Rawalpindi has not seen the establishment of government-sponsored Ramzan bazaars due to a severe financial crisis. The district administration has instead allocated eight locations where street vendors have been allowed to set up stalls under the banner of "Sasta Ramzan Bazaars." However, several densely populated areas, including Sadiqabad, Dhoke Hassu, Gulzar-e-Quaid, Chungi No 22, Morgah, Adiala Road and Chakri Road, have been excluded from the list of traditional Ramzan Bazaars. Unlike past years, these makeshift markets lack wholesale dealers, utility store stalls, or agriculture department kiosks. Additionally, no police personnel, district administration officials, or civil defence volunteers have been deployed for oversight. The vendors who usually sell in these areas have simply been designated as part of the "Sasta bazaars," where food items, including vegetables, fruits, and essential groceries, are reportedly being sold at high prices and in poor quality. This year, no additional price control magistrates have been appointed, leaving citizens at the mercy of market forces. Even the decades-old Committee Chowk Sunday bazaar has now been rebranded as a Ramzan bazaar, but without any government subsidies. Meanwhile, Rawalpindi Commissioner Aamir Rafiq chaired a meeting where the decision to declare these street markets as Ramzan bazaars was announced. He stated that similar bazaars have been set up across different tehsils, where essential goods will be available at wholesale rates. The designated locations for Ramzan facilitation markets include, Allama Iqbal Park, Haidari Chowk, Rawalpindi Cantt, Chohr Model Bazaar, Chak Beli Khan in Rawalpindi Cantt and the city. Similarly in Gujar Khan Service Road and Hayat Sir Road, Taxila's Deen Plaza and GT Road and Kahuta's Vegetable Market and Main Bazaar will host similar bazaars. The commissioner has assured that these markets will provide all necessary facilities, including dedicated sale points for sugar.
Express Tribune
28-01-2025
- Business
- Express Tribune
Pindi plans subsidised Ramazan bazaars
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner Hassan Waqar Cheema has called a joint meeting of all departments concerned, wholesalers of food items and essential commodities, and fruit and vegetable market dealers next week to set up 16 cheap Ramzan Bazaars. Ramazan Bazaars are being established across the district to supply vegetables, fruits, pulses, flour, and sugar at subsidised rates during the holy month of Ramazan. The bazaars, which will be covered with marquees to provide shelter from rain, will operate from 8am to 5pm. The wholesale dealers will be allotted stalls free of charge. Under the Punjab government's special Ramazan subsidy package, various items, including vegetables, lentils, sugar, flour, ghee, oil, chicken, eggs, and meat, will be available at discounted rates. In Rawalpindi city, these bazaars will be set up at Committee Chowk, Haidri Chowk, Allama Iqbal Park, Dhok Hassu, Morgah, Gulzar-e-Quaid, Cantonment areas, Chungi No. 22, Dhok Syedan, Sadiqabad, and Choher Harpal. In addition, one bazaar each will be set up in the tehsils of Kahuta, Kallar Syedan, Gujar Khan, and Taxila. To facilitate these bazaars, private vendors will be engaged to provide tents, canopies, chairs and stall tables.
