The Khulna City Corporation starts market surveillance today with a view to curbing price hick of essential commodities on the occasion of Ramadan.
Two teams have been formed by the KCC to watch if prices of essential commodities have soared up unusually or not.
One of the two teams comprises twenty members and there are four members in the other team.
KCC has fixed prices of beef between Tk 250 and Tk 260 per kilogram and the price of mutton between Tk 420 and Tk 430 per kilogram.
The KCC chief revenue officer, Shahnewaz Talukder, who has been made convener of both the teams, said the city corporation had decided to fix both the wholesale and the retail prices of some essential commodities and asked the traders to display the prices in markets and shops.
Two taskforces have also been formed by the Khulna district administration and the Khulna Metropolitan Police for market surveillance and taking legal actions against attempts of increasing prices by creating artificial crisis in the market.
The acting KCC mayor, Ajmal Ahmed Tapan, has been made the chief adviser of the price monitoring teams.
Meanwhile, only 36 out of 535 dealers of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh of ten districts in Khulna division withdrew goods from the corporation fulfilling their quota till Thursday, which will have hardly any impact on the market price of sugar, soybean oil, gram, lentil and palm oil.
There are allegations that politicisation, nepotism and corruption in appointing TCB dealers deprived the genuine traders.
-With New Age input
