ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin has assigned the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) to adopt a practice of regularly comparing the difference in wholesale and retail prices of essential food items in different districts across the country.
Addressing at an introductory meeting here at Ministry of Finance on Monday, he said addressing the root cause of inflation with devising a new hierarchy of administrative control will provide the most needed relief to the masses.
The Minister said that the data, if available on real time basis on the PBS dash-board, will help in maintaining the strategic reserves of the essential commodities across the country.