In the run-up to the festival, consumers’ kitchens became more expensive

Nepali cuisine has become more expensive in the run-up to the festival.

Sugar, which was priced at Rs 95 per kg last June, has increased by Rs 10 to Rs 120 per kg since July. In the price list of the first week of August, the price of sugar is mentioned at Rs 105. But towards the end of the week, the price of sugar in the Union is Rs 90 per kg.

Currently, the price of sugar in the market is Rs 120 per kg. The concerned body has not been able to answer the reason why the prices have skyrocketed in the face of the festival. The common consumer is confused due to different prices from shop to shop.

Rice, which is indispensable in Nepalese kitchens, has become more expensive since July. From last July 4, India announced a ban on the export of non-basmati. Within 2/4 days, the prices started to increase in the Nepali market. The government tightened the market monitoring for a few days after the traders started selling the old stock rice by increasing the price. But it did not continue.

On the eve of Dasahin, consumer rights activists have complained that the government has transferred the employees of the department, which should have been instructed to make market monitoring more strict. There is a possibility that the black market will increase in the market during the festival, and the market will become uncontrolled due to the increase in fraud. Consumer rights activist Jay Prasad Poudel says that the government should direct the market monitoring agencies to be strict.’

A major mechanism for managing the market is monitoring. Monitoring helps keep the market in the system. Monitoring is necessary to find out how service providers, sellers and producers are providing services, how the rights of consumers are being violated, whether there is fraud or not,” said Paudel.

Paudel says that the government should tighten the market management rather than transferring the staff of monitoring agencies.

There may be a food crisis very soon. The government should decide to stop the inflation. But the government is ignoring it.