Additional Commissioner Coordinator Sundas Arshad reviewed measures taken for dengue eradi-cation and availability, quality of subsidized commodities in Ramazan bazaars.
She was presiding over a meeting at the Commis-sioner’s office here on Friday. Additional Deputy Commissioners Tanveer Alyas Cheema, Dr Mujtaba and Syed Munawar Abbas attended the meeting while deputy commissioners of Lahore Division attended meeting through video link.
The additional commissioner said that all departments should play an active role in implementing dengue
guidelines, adding that people’s cooperation was of utmost importance for controlling dengue and a special campaign should be launched to raise awareness among citizens. Surveillance teams com-prising trained staff should be deployed for searching and killing larvae, she stressed.
It was told during the meeting that inspections were being carried out on regular basis in Ramadan ba-zaars and general market to ensure fixed prices an-nounced by the government.
Agriculture fair price shops have been set up in Ramadan bazaars to pro-vide vegetables and fruits at discount rates.
