Mobile courts' drive begins tomorrow
Friday, 12 November 2010
FE Report
Mobile courts will start conducting drive from Saturday at the city's kitchen markets to check unusual price hike of essentials.
The decision was taken at a meeting Thursday at the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) on spice and spice related products import, production, demand and market price situation.
MoC Additional Secretary ATM Murtaza Reza Chowdhury presided over the meeting.
The mobile courts will conduct the drive with the help of the police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The MoC has also decided to send letters to the ministries of home affairs, shipping and communication and the National Board of Revenue asking them to take necessary measures for giving top priority to products-laden vehicles in ferry communication and land ports.
Businessmen present in the meeting said the price of onion increased due to supply constraint but the situation has improved recently.
They gave the assurance that prices of all sorts of spices would come down and there was no possibility of price hike.
MoC Joint Secretary (IIT) Md Shawkat Ali Owarechi, FBCCI Director Helal Uddin, Bangladesh Wholesale Spices Businessmen Association president Enayet Ullah and other businessmen and importers took part in the meeting.
The MoC has geared up its monitoring activities to check the price hike of essentials in the market. Besides, an emergency meeting on edible oil and sugar was held at the ministry Wednesday.
Mobile courts will start conducting drive from Saturday at the city's kitchen markets to check unusual price hike of essentials.
The decision was taken at a meeting Thursday at the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) on spice and spice related products import, production, demand and market price situation.
MoC Additional Secretary ATM Murtaza Reza Chowdhury presided over the meeting.
The mobile courts will conduct the drive with the help of the police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The MoC has also decided to send letters to the ministries of home affairs, shipping and communication and the National Board of Revenue asking them to take necessary measures for giving top priority to products-laden vehicles in ferry communication and land ports.
Businessmen present in the meeting said the price of onion increased due to supply constraint but the situation has improved recently.
They gave the assurance that prices of all sorts of spices would come down and there was no possibility of price hike.
MoC Joint Secretary (IIT) Md Shawkat Ali Owarechi, FBCCI Director Helal Uddin, Bangladesh Wholesale Spices Businessmen Association president Enayet Ullah and other businessmen and importers took part in the meeting.
The MoC has geared up its monitoring activities to check the price hike of essentials in the market. Besides, an emergency meeting on edible oil and sugar was held at the ministry Wednesday.