Punjab launches free home delivery of food items

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s Free Home Delivery Project has set a new and unprecedented record of public service.

This is the first government-level project in Punjab to provide free delivery of quality and cheapest food items to homes, under which free home delivery is being carried out from 46 convenience markets established in 35 cities of the province.

So far, more than 312,000 orders have been successfully delivered to the doorsteps of the public. Under the Punjab Sahulat Bazaar Authority, the provision of 13 basic food items is being ensured through the Free Home Delivery Project, the rates of which have been fixed even lower than the notified rates of the Deputy Commissioner. Under the Home Delivery Project, food items are being made available to the public at a price up to seven percent lower than the DC rate. The facility of ordering through the Free Home Delivery app available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store has been provided, while orders are being delivered through the riders app of the Punjab Sahulat Bazaar Authority.

Under free home delivery, besides potatoes, onions, tomatoes, pumpkins, garlic, apples, bananas, dates, lemons and guavas, lentils, gram, gram flour, flour and sugar can also be ordered.

Through this project, citizens have saved Rs 110 million while sitting at home. The public has expressed happiness, calling the delivery of affordable and quality food items at their doorsteps unprecedented.

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif says that the effects of inflation will not be allowed to reach the public under any circumstances, this is our resolve, while the scope of the free home delivery project will be gradually extended to other cities of Punjab.