Provincial Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that it has been decided to file FIRs against the transporters if they charge more than the fixed fares from the public on the occasion of Eid. If transporters have any concerns on this issue, they might contact the government. He said that people go to their native areas, cities and villages to meet their loved ones on Eid. No one will be allowed to take advantage of people’s compulsion.
He expressed these views while addressing a press conference at the Sindh Archives Complex today along with Provincial Labor Minister Saeed Ghani and Pakistan People’s Party leader Salman Abdullah Murad. He said that there is a storm of inflation, the way oil prices have increased, everything has become expensive and people are very worried. Sharjeel Inam Memon said that the Sindh government is endeavoring to reduce the burden of inflation on the people.
He said that when the agenda of increasing the fares of the People’s Bus Service came up in the Sindh Cabinet, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had differed it and said that the Sindh government will bear the subsidy on it. He said that two routes of electric buses have been started in Karachi; another and third route of electric bus service will be launched from Tuesday (Today).
It will start from Powerhouse Chowrangi via Sohrab Goth, Shah-i-rah Pakistan, Teen Hatti , Guru Mandir, MA Jinnah Road , Tower and end at Keamari.Sindh Information Minister said on the issue of census that the Sindh government has serious reservations on census and they are in constant contact with the federal government on this matter.
He added that Sindh government had conveyed its concerns to the federal government, on which the federal government has assured that the concerns of the Sindh Government, will be addressed. He said that the final results of the census will show how far the reservations of the Sindh government were addressed. The provincial information minister said that the Sindh government has fixed the support price of wheat at Rs 4,000 per maund for the current season. Two days ago, a fake notification of Rs 3,000 per maund was circulated on social media. After investigation It is revealed that the social media people of PTI was involved in it . PTI social media cell created a notification with the fake signature of Secretary Food and made it viral. He said that one can guess that PTI people can go to such extend. Mr. Memon added that a criminal conspiracy was made to mislead people.
The aim of this fake notification was to bar growers and farmers not to sell their wheat to the government and give wheat to private entrepreneurs so that there will be a wheat crisis in the province. He said that police and FIA have been instructed to take action against the people involved in this conspiracy. He said that Sindh government has fixed the highest support price of wheat in Pakistan.
