Friends
Do not get fruastrated at the price hike of the essentials which is
the henious act of the "CHETONA BIRODHI" BNP n JAMAT.
Let the queue get bigger and bigger but please do not upset since good
days are in the offing when the people will be fed the rice @ TK: 10/-
once the
anti Bangladesh/anti BAKSAL/anti father of the nation are tried to
free Sonar Bangladesh from the tainted peiod of undemocratic rule of
"Paki spy Zia n Khaleda and the Bishaw behaia LUICHCHA(womenizer)
ERSHAIDDDDDDDDDDDA( the important sharik of Mohajote).
Faruque Alamgir
On 3/6/11, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rice queue gets longer
> *Prices in market fall a little*
> **
> *People wait for the OMS (open market sale) truck in the city's Lalbagh area
> at 6:00am a few days ago. As the price of rice continues to go up, many from
> middle and lower-income groups every day rush to the capital's OMS points to
> buy rice at subsidised price**.*
>
> Prices of rice eased marginally this week but still remain too high for the
> poor, forcing more of them to queue up at fair price outlets.
>
> People in the lower middle income group have recently started going to open
> market sale (OMS) shops to buy the staple food at a subsidised rate."Nobody
> likes to stand in a queue. I wouldn't have been here had I not been
> compelled to. Prices of rice are too high to afford for a long time," said a
> depressed Mohammad Shahed, an undergraduate student of marketing under the
> National University.Shahed stood in a queue at a government fair price point
> at Swamibag on Thursday to buy rice at Tk 24 per kilogram, at least Tk 10
> cheaper than the market price.
>
> According to a food ministry official, a total of 209 OMS trucks had sold
> rice to 125,000 families in the capital on that day.Currently, retailers
> sell coarse rice, mostly consumed by the poor, at Tk 34-37 a kg, down from
> Tk 35-37 per kg last week.The rice prices dipped slightly more than two
> months after it was traded at a record high price level at retails.
>
> Despite having a good rice output in the last three crop seasons, prices of
> coarse rice soared by 31 percent locally during the last year.A low
> government stock and rising international prices heated the local rice
> market, analysts said. However, prices of other essentials, such as wheat,
> flour, cooking oil and spices, shot up too. This price surge was attributed
> to poor crop output in the producing countries due to natural calamities.
>
> On a year-on-year basis, prices of cooking oil and flour, for which
> Bangladesh heavily depends on imports, rose as high as 56 percent and 51
> percent respectively. It deepened the hardships of the low income people who
> account for 40 percent of country's population.
>
> People standing in queues at OMS shops said hike in prices of essentials put
> them into trouble at a time when most of them have to pay higher amounts for
> house rents and children's education.
> "My income has not increased in line with the rising costs of living. House
> rent has been going up every year," said Babu Pal, a worker at a light
> engineering workshop.
>
> To reduce the sufferings of the poor and ease prices, the government
> expanded its various safety net measures including doubling the number OMS
> outlets in Dhaka."People now think they will not go empty-handed as the
> number of OMS trucks have increased," said Md Mirazul Haque, OMS operation
> supervisor at Kamrangir Char Lohar Pool.
>
> Buyers look for saving at least Tk 50 by purchasing 5 kg of rice from a fair
> price point. They said the saved amount helps them to buy vegetables or
> spend on other family purposes."We do not need to stand here if market
> prices are affordable. Even cooking oil and vegetables have become pricey,"
> said a housewife Sultana Ahmed Dipa.
>
> OMS dealers said the government sells sunned rice two days a week, which
> finds very few buyers. They gather in large numbers when boiled rice is sold
> during the other weekdays.Ahmad Hossain Khan, director general of
> Directorate of Food, claimed the crowding at OMS outlets has eased after the
> increase in fair price points.
>
> Now rice stocks do not deplete faster, he said adding, nearly 2,000,000
> people are getting the benefit due to expanded OMS operation across the
> country.He also hoped prices of rice would drop to Tk 26-27 per kg within
> this month.The government last week decided to add another 50 truckloads of
> rice to the present OMS quantity from this week.
>
> http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=176595
>
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