The district administration has accelerated the regis-tration of grocery stores and families under the on-going Ehsaas Ration Registration drive.
According to a district administration spokes-man, the administration on the directives of Com-missioner Rawalpindi Gulzar Hussain Shah had expedited the registration process.
The commissioner had also directed the admini-stration to review the registration process of grocery stores for Ehsaas Ration program, he added.
According to Additional Deputy Commissioner, at present the whole world was suffering from se-vere wave of inflation and in these circumstances the federal government had launched Ehsaas Ration Program under which 20 million families across the country would get relief and a huge amount of Rs 120 billion had been allocated for the program. He said that under this program the process of registration of grocery stores had been reviewed where subsidy would be provided to the needy fami-lies.
He said that for this purpose grocery stores were being registered with National Bank of Pakistan and subsidy amount would be provided in their bank accounts.
