OMS of rice from Sept 9
Thursday, 16 August 2007
The head of the price monitoring committee has said he cannot understand why the prices of essentials have not come down, despite the withdrawal of duties, report bdnews24.com/ UNB.
"I am not a fortune teller," the commerce ministry's additional secretary Golam Mostakim, who heads the committee, said in response to queries Wednesday.
The official briefed reporters after an inter-ministerial meeting.
He further informed the reporters that the government would start a month-long open market sale (OMS) of rice across the country on September 9 as part of simultaneous efforts to control the prices of essential items.
"Why the market prices are not coming down is a mystery to me," he added.
About OMS, he said some 15,000 dealers would be deputed to operate the open market sale three days a week until October 11 for selling 0.124 million (1.24 lakh tonnes) of rice.
He said the OMS operation would continue alongside BDR's Dal-Bhat programme and other market intervention activities of the government.
Mostakim, convenor of the monitoring committee, said the Test Relief (TR) programme would start simultaneously with the OMS on September 9 for four months.
"I am not a fortune teller," the commerce ministry's additional secretary Golam Mostakim, who heads the committee, said in response to queries Wednesday.
The official briefed reporters after an inter-ministerial meeting.
He further informed the reporters that the government would start a month-long open market sale (OMS) of rice across the country on September 9 as part of simultaneous efforts to control the prices of essential items.
"Why the market prices are not coming down is a mystery to me," he added.
About OMS, he said some 15,000 dealers would be deputed to operate the open market sale three days a week until October 11 for selling 0.124 million (1.24 lakh tonnes) of rice.
He said the OMS operation would continue alongside BDR's Dal-Bhat programme and other market intervention activities of the government.
Mostakim, convenor of the monitoring committee, said the Test Relief (TR) programme would start simultaneously with the OMS on September 9 for four months.