Srinagar: Even as different government agencies have resorted to the
much-hyped market checking, prices of essential commodities have gone
skyward as the Muslim festival Eid-ul-Fitr approaches. The markets of
summer capital are these days abuzz with the huge rush of shoppers
being witnessed in the city centre.
Reports maintained that people in large number are busy in buying
interiors, furnishing and food products for the Eid celebrations.
Talking to KNS, scores of people while complaining that the prices of
several commodities are toughing sky at present, they stated that the
authorities again seem to be in slumber over putting lid to such
violations being exhibited openly in the markets at present.
They stated that the food items are being sold without any price lists
and that the shopkeepers seem busy in looting people with their new
marketing mantra and that is, lena hae to lo. People also stated
that the market checking squads remain absconding in the city, hence
giving free hand for price violations. Now this situation has become
unbearable for us. We are being taken for a ride and no measures are
being taken to control the market inflations.
There are several others who are of the opinion that the market
checking squads and the shop keepers are in nexus to sell products
at their own prices. It is quite disappointing that at one time the
authorities fix rates and make that public but now the situation on
ground is different. Those rates, fixed by the government are never
implemented on ground. Either the government is reluctant or is itself
willing to surround people with such crises.
The shopkeepers, particularly those selling food products including
veggies and fruits stated that they themselves get the products
against the rates that are higher than the ones fixed by the
government. How could we sell the products at the fixed rates when we
get them much higher than the actual?, asked the vegetable seller of
Lal Chowk.
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