Good news for the people as the prices of over 800 items of daily use available at the country’s utility stores have been reduced by 10 per cent, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Thursday.

According to the utility stores’ corporation spokesman, prices of different brands of ghee, cooking oil, tea, noodles, ketchup, milk, dry milk, spices, pickles, soaps, toothpaste and other items have been slashed by Rs8 to Rs200.

He has said that new rates have taken effect immediately.

The spokesman has further said that the subsidy that was offered to the corporation under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), and which had been stopped, would soon resume under the new rules.

The spokesman has said that the corporation has started implementing a new strategy with a renewed vigour to keep offering the best services so that the consumers do not lose their trust in it. “Steps are also being taken to reduce the prices of other products as well,” he has informed.

Reporters: Baseem Iftikhar and Waqas Azeem