GUJRANWALA: Fruit and vegetable market commission agents have criticised the market committee for not ensuring cleanliness and threatened to withhold sanitation fee.

The agents met on Friday with their association president Haji Muhammad Siddiq in chair.

The meeting was told that the fruit and vegetable market was a picture of neglect and stink from stagnant water and solid waste was unbearable.

It noted that several loaded trucks had overturned recently due to poor condition of market roads causing financial losses to agent.

The meeting said association was paying Rs.900,000 per month to the market committee for sanitation but it was doing nothing to improve the situation.

The agents deplored that their meeting with the DCO in the past had failed to bring an positive change.

Market committee chairman Rana Intizar Javed was not available for comments.

Published in Dawn, October 8th, 2016