Utility store closed in Pakistan

Utility store closed in Pakistan

What happened was what the government was terrified of. The last relief left by the people was taken away forever. Utility stores were closed across the country.

Utility store closed in Pakistan

Utility store closure

Be careful, now no one will get anything cheap, especially all the essentials, including rice flour, and sugar, will not get cheap, nor will they get any kind of relief. The stars have shown the people, they don't understand how their life has changed in a moment, how everything has ended in a moment, this news is spreading like wildfire on social media.

The news is that the federal government has decided to close the utility stores completely and has also given an ultimatum to close the utility stores.

Federal Government Utility Store Close 

The federal government has given two weeks to close the utility stores. This decision caused a wave of concern among thousands of utility store employees. Can you imagine that 7 thousand employees of utility stores are permanent while others are contract and daily? Let's say that the total number of utility store employees across the country is more than 18,000. What will happen to all of them? The salaries and inflation in Pakistan are already known to everyone, but what will happen to these employees? If there are small children, how will one's sick parents work, how will the home stove work, how will medicines and educational matters work? So some are being closed,

In this regard, the Secretary of Industries and Production has said that the federal government does not have money due to which this decision is being taken and to add insult to injury, the government has also stopped the relief provided under the Benazir Income Support Program. given,

The poor will now have to buy powdered sugar and ghee at expensive prices from the utility store. Beneath the Benazir Income Support Program, sugar lived Rs. 109, which has been increased to Rs. 155 per kg. While the Rs 380 ghee has been reduced to Rs 450 per kg, this relief was available on certain items like powdered sugar ghee and other basic needs.

History of Utility Stores in Pakistan

If you take a look at the history of utility stores, utility stores in Pakistan started in 1971 under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the Utility Stores Corporation was established to provide basic necessities to the people. The number of utility stores increased over time, and in the 1980s, these stores spread to different parts of the country and more products such as pulses, tea and dry fruits were also available. In addition, in the 1990s, the government set up a separate agency to further regulate the activities of utility stores, called the Utility Stores Corporation. of,

By 2024, the number of utility stores in Pakistan is around 7 thousand. The network of utility stores is spread across the country and they are present in both cities and villages. Deprivation in Pakistan has achieved 23 per cent in 2024.

And in these circumstances, social pressure will continue to increase with the closure of utility stores. In the last five years, the prices of essential items have increased by more than 50% and now this situation has become more serious with the closure of utility stores. It will also face the fact that for more than 30 per cent of the country's people who are still below the poverty line, their difficulties will be reduced. It has been decided to implement

This decision is tantamount to hurting the trust of the people and hurting the economy, which may also make the path of national stability difficult in the future.