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| Kathmandu, Monday March 31, 2003 Chaitra 17, 2059. |
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Spiralling
price hike
It seems local
businessmen and traders are taking undue advantage of the American-led war in Iraq. The
brunt of price hike in kerosene and petrol is hard enough, businessmen have raised the
prices of daily essentials like tomatoes, mustard oil, beaten rice etc. There is no
consistency. Prices are being hiked haphazardly. Some may say that the current increase in
petro-products, mainly diesel and petrol has pushed up the prices of other commodities,
too. How can one justify a whopping rise in the price of tomatoes, for instance, which
jumped from Rs 20 to Rs 55 per kg? Well, tomatoes don’t come from all the way from
Iraq, or for that matter the Middle East. It simply defies logic, if one cares to look at
the weightage given to this consumer good by the Nepal Rastra Bank.
Radha Gyawali
Basukinagar, Kathmandu |
