KARACHI, Jan 27: The stall holders in most of the Sunday bazaars, particularly at University Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, overcharge their customers on one or the other pretext owing to negligence of the price controlling authority.

Deputed staff of the Bureau of Supply and Demand at the bazaars hardly bother to remain vigilant, though they are supposed to check the prices and solve the customers’ problems if the stall holders demand more than fixed rates displayed.

The officials have been informed regularly about the absence of price lists on the stalls and overcharging, but they do not take any action. They just ask the customer in front of the shopkeeper to pay the fixed price.

The general opinion of the shoppers is that the employees of the bureau if intended

to enforce the price list, they could do it by making regular rounds of the bazaars and listening to the rates quoted by the stall holders.

They could also send the fake customers, some of them argued.

If the Sunday bazaars, monitored by the army could adhere to the price list, then why it was not possible at other places, they added.

Some of the stall holders overcharged on the pretext that the commodity in question is of special grade. —APP