Syndicate rules: Prices of essentials rise during Covid time

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Kishoreganj Correspondent :
Most of daily essential have recorded an unabated rise in recent months.
The prices of Rice and several other essential commodities continue to soar in the kitchen markets despite the country has sufficient stocks.
The prices of key essentials items, including Rice, Pules, Oil, Onion,Potato and Egg have been soared notably blaming shortage of supply in
recent time.
Prices of some items have been doubled comparing to the last year.
Keeping the kitchen markets stable, the government has fixed the prices of some commodities, but the treads are not following the fixation.
Thousands of law and middle -income families in Kishoreganj ate struggling to cope with the rising prices of essentials including food and vegetables., as their income fell due to ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Consumers in Kishoreganj alleged that price of every food stuff is beyond their purchasing capacity and too high to buy.
Common people are blaming a Syndicate of businessmen for the price hike of essential commodities. They also accused the syndicate of” robbing ‘ crores of taka from the pockets of members of public by dictating markets price.
Visiting Kachari Bazar,Puranthana Bazar, and Bara Bazar in Kishoreganj kitchen markets, it has been found that most of the items price had increased.
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