I would like to bring to the notice of the district administration, DMC rate control committee, food & civil supplies department to kindly publish the prices of the essential commodities and their prescribed prices for the benefit of the common man at the earliest as we the public do not have any knowledge what are the exact prices of the items in the market which has been fluctuating from time to time. <\/p>\n
Be it a consumable items like a bag of rice, vegetable, pulses, meat or fish etc. or a building material like a bag of cement, MS Rod, sand, bricks etc. it is the bounden duty of the above mentioned bodies to make the public aware from time to time lest the unscrupulous traders bury alive the already ripped and torn common man in the name of extortion, shortage of goods, hike of fuel prices etc. <\/p>\n
Kohima administration has published the prices more than a week ago. What is more surprising is that the prices in Kohima are comparatively cheaper than in Dimapur in spite of the transportation costs and those \u2018taxtortion gates.\u2019 <\/p>\n
I wonder why the consumer forums and civic bodies of Dimapur are remaining silent when the traders are charging the prices at their whims and fancies and \u2018khusi-khushi\u2019 style though keeping in mind about all types of taxes they have to bear paying all types of unions, associations, undergrounds, overgrounds etc. <\/p>\n
In spite of all these I suppose the administration is alive and should prescribe the rates for the benefit of all and sundry. Now, let us compare the prices of the items KMC published in the local dailies a week ago and the prices the common people are paying in Dimapur. (See table)<\/p>\n
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\n<\/div>\nBesides these, many unlisted items such as rice (Andhra 50 kg bag of course, minding the different brands such as Arham, Arihant etc) varies from every stockists and retails say from Rs. 1390 to Rs. 1400 or Rs. 1450. <\/p>\n
While Rice like grader (50 kg bag both Punjab & Haryana) varies from Rs. 1050 to 1080 to even Rs. 1150 A set of eggs is costing from Rs. 130 to 140 and even Rs. 150 at times, sugar costs around 45 to Rs. 50.<\/p>\n
Be it a wholesaler or a retailer, there is complete absence of uniformity of prices in the market. Every vendor, trader to trader and shop to shop is charging the prices of the goods differently with no one to address the plight of the common man. <\/p>\n
It has become unbearable for the common man to survive against all these odds with the concerned authorities turning a blind eye. <\/p>\n
I also wonder, \u2018Why the price chart in the fish market is nowadays kept horizontally in a sleeping position in one corner and the vegetable price chart in the New market always blank.\u2019 I would like to bring to the notice of the district administration, DMC rate control committee, food & civil supplies department to kindly publish the prices of the essential commodities and their prescribed prices for the benefit of the common man at the earliest as we the public do not have any knowledge what are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCitizen Journalist: Jonah Achumi, Dimapur.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"