Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Dilendra Prasad Badu has directed the authority concerned to make market monitoring effective.
Saying that there has been an increasing trend of price hike and also shortage of most essential goods in the market of late in several pretexts, Minister Badu directed the commerce, supplies and consumer protection committee to effectively monitor the market.
According to the ministry's secretariat, the minister issued the directive to regulate the market in response to the public grievances as consumers have started lodging complaints on price hike.
Minister Badu called Department's Director-General Lila Prasad Sharma at the ministry and directed him to carry out consistent and effective monitoring of the prices of essential goods, quality, inventory and sales along with the status of sales and distribution of daily consumptive goods.
It may be noted that the consumers have been taking the toll of unilateral decision of big industrialists and entrepreneurs in hiking price of goods, including foodstuffs.
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