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Overall inflation in prices of consumer commodities in the entire country continues to keep on rising.What a strange coincidence.On April 21 the main opposition BJP staged a massive protest demonstration and rally in New Delhi against the Congress led UPA Government's failure in checking price rise.And in the evening of the same day the Government announced fresh market support prices for pulses and sugar which are bound ti push up the line of inflation.During the last one week food inflation has gone up from 17.22 per cent to 17.65 per cent.And within one week the overall inflation in food prices has gone up to 9.9 per cent last month when during the corresponding period last year the rise was 8.18 per cent.Similarly fruits and vegetables have registered a further price rise by three per cent that of the pulses by another one per cent.If one keeps a track of the price line of all major consumer items,including petrol,diesel,cooking
gas,pulses,rice,wheat atta,vegetables,milk,fruit,cheese,mutton and chicken one will find that the price line,that too in the retail and open market,has gone up by 10 to 30 per cent during the last one year.The previous Congress led UPA Government played a trick with the voters.It announced price slash of 2.5 and 3.5 per cent in per litre of petrol and diesel just before the Lok Sabha elections last year.Soon after the election results were out petrol and diesel prices registered fresh hike and at present one litre of petrol in various Indian states and cities is sold at Rs.47.79 to Rs.51.Rice price continues to register rise each month.What has been the most painful saga in the entire price policy is the way the Government allowed pulses to register 10 to 25 per cent rise during the last 24 months.The same pulses which was considered to be a poor man's diet is now being consumed by the rich families sparingly.An old adage says "an apple a day
keeps the doctor away."Who will dare to keep the doctor away when one kg of apples sells between Rs.80 and Rs.120.In the northern states,except for Jammu and Kashmir,one kg of mutton is sold at Rs.280 to Rs.290 thereby meaning that one piece of mutton costs around Rs.15.The Congress led UPA Government has one refrain"we will control the prices" and the price structure seems to be fixed by the traders and the dealers instead of the Government.Besides there is a huge margin of profit between goods sold in wholesale and the one sold in retail.You are tormented by the phenomenal price rise in readymade garments,leather footwear,cosmetics and medicines Even people belonging to the upper middle class feel tormented and troubled by the ever increasing prices of medicines,including the life saving drugs.In fact the entire fault lies with the big manufacturers and dealers.Even the small shopkeepers have no role in this sodid drama.The Government seems to
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helpless spectator and had it been plagued and panicked by the peoples'wrath it would have examined the reason for the shopkeepers to sell readymade garments at reduced rates or under the sale procedure giving 50 to 80 per cent rebate to the customers.This means that the pre- sale price level has been kept so high that the shopkeepers can afford to announce 80 per cent rebate. Experts say that there is no wide gap between the supply and the demand but scarcity and shortfall are man managed affair which allows the sellers to earn bigger markets.In case the Government is unable to bring down prices of essential commodities,especially the foodgrans,the level of malnuitrition in the country will definitely go up resulting in starvation deaths.(eom)
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