LAHORE, Oct 27: Punjab communications and works minister Chaudhry Zaheeruddin said on Thursday another 119 truckloads of relief goods had been sent to the affected areas, raising the total number to 5,080.

Talking to reporters here, the minister said 26 trucks carried eatables, 11 tents, 78 blankets and four medicines for the victims. Of 5,080 truckloads sent to the quake-hit areas so far, 2,561 had been sent by the government, 3,229 by the private sector and 296 by different government departments.

He said the chief minister’s support-a-family project would accelerate the pace of rehabilitation of the victims. He said the provincial government would continue helping the calamity stricken people till their complete rehabilitation.

Nazim: District Nazim Mian Amer has ordered a solution to sanitation and encroachment problems in the fruit and vegetable market on a priority basis.

Talking to Lahore Market Committee administrator Mian Asad Munir during a visit to the market on Ravi Link Road here on Thursday, he said the prices of fruits and vegetables should be monitored to check overcharging by retailers.

Mian Asad informed the nazim that the sanitation contract of the market awarded to a private firm for Rs350,000 per month had been cancelled and task entrusted to the Solid Waste Management. Other problems were also being solved.

Fruit market president Hafiz Ajmal presented a cheque for Rs500,0000 donated by the traders for quake victims.

FINED: Of 135 shopkeepers checked by the price monitoring teams of town municipal administrations on Thursday, 125 were found overcharging.