Dhaka, April 26 -- GROCERY items, including onion, garlic, sugar and chickpea, as well as other vegetables, are selling for higher prices at kitchen markets across the capital as the Ramzan approaching. The government promised that essential food items would not be hiked, but at least 10 days before the Ramzan consumers have started to suffer from the higher price. We see a nexus of dishonest wholesalers and retailers have formed illegal, profit-mongering syndicates which are charging extra prices for the items. The government must ensure strong monitoring on consumers' rights violation, illegal hoarders, and retail level price hiking.
Market sources said in the last 10 to 12 days, the price per kg of chickpeas went up by Tk 5 to Tk 10, su...