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ECC Approves Higher Rates for Essential Commodities at Utility Stores ECC Approves Higher Rates for Essential Commodities at Utility Stores File photo Meeting approves procurement of cotton bales, import of sugar, and auction of spectrum to improve mobile phone services in Pakistan-administered Kashmir The federal cabinet’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Friday approved a substantial hike on prices of essential commodities such as wheat flour, ghee and sugar, notably allowing the subsidized Utility Stores Corporation to sell them at rates closer to market values. In a statement issued after the meeting, which was led by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and attended by one two of the committee’s 14 members, the ECC said it had increased the prices of the edibles on the recommendation of the Ministry of Industries and Production. It said that the price of ghee at the subsidized Utility Stores was increasing from Rs. 170/kg to Rs. 260/kg, a 53 percent hike. Similarly,

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