Staff Reporter Islamabad
Under the directive of Prime Minister of Pakistan, Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan, (USC) launches a historic Ramadan Relief Package 2021 on April 10, 2021 through provisioning of subsidy on 19 essential items including wheat flour, sugar, ghee, rice, cooking oil, pulses, white gram, dates, tetra pack milk, tea, spices, and gram flour.
Under the relief package, USC is offering hefty discounts on more than 1500 products as well.
In this relief package, wheat flour of 20-kilogram bag is available at Rs. 800; sugar per kilogram is available at Rs. 68; Ghee per kilogram will be available at Rs. 170 whereas subsidy on black tea is Rs. 50 per kilogram; oil will be Rs. 20 per litre; subsidy on pulses is from Rs. 15 to Rs. 30 per kilogram; subsidy on white gram is Rs. 25 per kilogram; subsidy on dates is Rs. 20 per kilogram; subsidy on rice is from Rs. 10-12; subsidy on squashes and syrups ranges from Rs. 20-25;subsidy on milk (UHT) per litre is Rs. 20 and subsidy on spices is 10 percent.
The relief package will equally be implemented nationwide on over4,800utility stores.
In line with the directive and vision of Prime Minister of Pakistan, the amount of subsidy on 19 essential items has been increased this year, as compared to previous years to provide maximum relief to the marginalised people of Pakistan.
In order to facilitate people of Pakistan and to provide essential commodities at their doorsteps, USC will increase number of Mobile Utility Stores under the relief package.
Since its inception, USC is serving the nation with an obligation of averting food shortage during thick and thin.
Over the years, USC has proved itself to be a reliable support to the nation as it is successfully transferring Govt’s subsidy on essential food items, deterring hoarding, black marketing and providing critical market intelligence to assist government in framing economic policies.
The role of USC specifically becomes critical during the pandemics and disasters as it has the largest retail network nationwide.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, as per its precedence of averting food shortage, all 4,881 retail outlets of USC remained open by strictly complying Standard Operating Procedures of Covid-19 to maintain continued supply of food items at prices lower than the open market.
