PRE-FIXED MARKET RATE

Since 4 months the market price is higher. Moreover, the vegetable price including oil for cooking is sky-rocketed. In open market Mustard oil price is going up and up. Now per kg the Mustard oil rate is Rs.150/-, whereas Sunflower oil costs Rs.120/- and Palmolein fixed at Rs.100/-.In a nutshell, marketing for a common man is like going to ICU room. In one hand, corona is still lingering; in other hand price rise especially affected vegetables and oil market. Not only Mustard or Palmolein, but also vegetables price is very dearer for BPL family at present. It is unusually usual with below poverty line people and lower middle class people to depend upon potato and onion for their meal each day. Suddenly after corona’s outbreak, the price of potato now per kg. is Rs.40/- and onion’s selling price also is within Rs.50/- to Rs.55/-. Excluding those, even Myrrh Dal costs per kg. not less than Rs.100/-. Price rising is now common phenomenon of each market in Odisha starting from Koraput to Cuttack and capital Bhubaneswar too. Though those above food commodities are being treated as essential commodities, but neither the central government nor the state government bother about the same. Again it is  a fact that  Palmolein is being imported from country like Malaysia, USA  and Indonesia for which the import tax is 43 percent, whereas for Sunflower the tax is 38 percent and for each one GST is 5 percent. So, central government is to handle this problem by reducing the import tax. On the other hand, government of Odisha should control the price rise of not only potato and onion, but also all other vegetables. No doubt the Common man, the BPL family, the Lower-Middle class people and daily labourers are being taunted with price rise. Now both the centre and state should look towards the after-effect of this price rising which is unwanted at any cost.

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