Taking off onion costs: Govt sends checking groups to 10 areas

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The administration today (Tuesday) morning sent a sum of 10 groups, each driven by a joint secretary, to the same number of areas for checking the inventory, cost, and supply of the key fundamental thing to the market, authorities said. 

Just before their adventure to the areas concerned, an extra secretary of the trade service advised them at the Secretariat, they said. 

The regions that the groups have been sent to are Cox's Bazar, Chattogram, Faridpur, Rajbari, Jashore, Dinajpur, Pabna, Satkhira, Sirajganj and Shariatpur. 

While visiting both the retail and discount showcases in the locale concerned, they will make a move against storing and fake value climb of the thing whenever found, the authorities said. 

The trade service gave an office request today (Tuesday) morning in such manner. 

Only a day after India's onion fare boycott, on Monday (yesterday), the nation's business sectors saw an expansion of onion costs up to Tk 50 for every kilogram, which market spectators portrayed as 'fake'. 

What's more, that provoked the administration to get the ball rolling - framing the 10 groups for observing the business sectors outside Dhaka - in endeavors to check the jogging onion cost. 

On that day, trade secretary Md Jafar Uddin said the groups would visit for the most part generation center points of onion and converse with the delegate chiefs (DCs) concerned how to anticipate accumulating and guarantee satisfactory stockpile of the fundamental flavor thing in the market. 

Bangladesh is a noteworthy merchant of the Indian onion thus any value change of the zest cost in the neighboring nation overflow the outskirt onto the nation's market. 

Buyers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) secretary Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan said poor market observing urged dealers to raise the costs capriciously. 

Refering to that the nation delivered 1.9 million tons and imported an aggregate of 1.1 million tons of onion this year, CAB secretary Bhuiyan said,"So, there is no rationale behind the costs going up by such a major edge when the interest for onion is evaluated at 2.4 million tons."

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