September 03, 2008	Wednesday	Ramazan 2, 1429

MIRPURKHAS, Sept 2: Ramazan has begun but market committee’s complaint centres have yet to be set up in the city while fruit sellers are overcharging as there is no price list anywhere in markets.

With the start of Ramazan, every year, the market committee used to set up its complaint centres and provide price lists to fruit sellers and shopkeepers for display. However, a day of Ramazan has passed but no price list has been provided to fruit sellers and shopkeepers from the market committee while no complaint centre of market committee has been set up in the city.

The buyers complained that fruit sellers were selling fruit on high rates.

Despite the announcement of the government that flour would be available at the subsidised rate at Utility Stores but here in the city flour was not available at most of the Utility Stores.

They demanded of the government to ensure availability of flour at each and every Utility Store. fertiliser: The district administration has launched a crackdown against those fertiliser dealers who were selling urea fertiliser outside the district or selling it in black market.

EDO of revenue Ali Mohammad Baloch told journalists on Tuesday that due to administration’s efforts 15,000 to 20,000 urea bags had been supplied to dealers within two days and they had made promise that they would sell it at Rs635 per bag, but he deplored that dealers were violating the promise.

He said he had approached the district nazim and suggested a ban on the movement of fertiliser outside the district.

He said 35,000 urea bags which were booked by dealers were being transported to Mirpurkhas from Rahim Yar Khan by train which would reach here within a few days and its distribution would help end shortage of fertiliser.

He said 45 trailers carrying 20,000 to 25,000 fertiliser bags would reach Mirpurkhas within a few days from Karachi.He said he had directed fertiliser dealers at a meeting to avoid hoarding of fertilisers and sell it at Rs635 per bag.

FIRING: A labourer was seriously injured when armed men opened fire at labourers working at an under-construction shopping centre of taluka municipal administration near Civil Hospital here on Monday night.

Some armed people reached the under-construction building of shopping centre of TMA and opened fire.

Ghulam Rasool Abbasi was seriously injured as he sustained bullet injury in head and was shifted to the civil hospital and later was referred to Hyderabad.

The contractor, Mohammed Ahsan Khokhar, has lodged a case with town police and named Yousuf Qureshi, Sajid Rajput, Khalid and eight others unidentified men as the accused.