DTI launches ‘Timbangan ng Bayan’ in Zamboanga del Sur

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(let) Bayog Mayor Leonardo Babasa with Raymund

Peña, DTI consumer division chief.

(Photo provide by DTI)

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Feb. 7 (PNA) -- The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is distributing 52 weighing scales to the different public markets in this city and 26 towns in this province.

Raymund Peña, DTI consumer division chief, said the distribution of the weighing scales with steel enclosures is in line with the agency’s launching “Timbangan ng Bayan” program in this province.

Peña said the first batch comprising of five municipalities received weighing scales on Thursday following the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).

These are the towns of Bayog, Dumalinao and Kumalarang that received two weighing scales each and Lakewood and Tigbao one each.

Peña said the other towns will either receive two weighing scales each or one each.

He said this city is set to receive five weighing scales. Four will be installed at the Agora Market and one at the Bagsakan Center.

He said they will also install Price Watch Board for Basic Commodities at the public markets.

He encourage consumers to report to them any violation by unscrupulous businessmen.(PNA)
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