Good news for people who work at utility stores

Beginning on Monday, workers of the Utility Stores will start getting their pay package.

The government says that the compensation package has been uploaded to the AGPR portal so that 4,459 workers of utility stores across the country can get their payments.

The workers’ bank accounts will be credited with the first payment, which is equal to 40% of their total pay.

The Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USCP) was a Pakistani government-owned company that ran a chain of stores across the country. These stores sold basic goods at lower prices than the open market because the government supported them. Before it was broken up in 2025, it had 5,939 locations and was the country’s biggest chain shop network.

A board of directors ran Utility Stores Corporation, and an executive director was in charge. If people or public business groups in Pakistan were worried about the quality of the goods being sold in shops, they could ask the courts to hold hearings.

When it was founded in 1971, Utility Stores Corporation’s goal was to help low-income people get cheaper food and drinks.

It began with just 20 stores that were bought from the Staff Welfare Organization. Its goal was to give everyone, especially the poor, access to clean, rated, and hygienically acceptable food and non-food things that had not been tampered with.