Fuel price hike and people's suffering
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The living costs of common people are crossing its tolerable limit. The adverse impact has already started to impact the commodity market in the wake of repeated increase in fuel price. The transport cost has increased as a result of this unexpected price hike. Taking undue advantage of this situation, the transport owners are hiking fares whimsically defying the rate fixed by the government. As a result, the businessmen are increasing the price of essentials showing this excuse of increase in transport fares. On many occasions, it has been observed that the government raise the prices of different services on the plea of financial loss. Meanwhile, two tariff hike proposals placed by the PDB and REB are pending with the regulatory body. It is now almost certain that power tariff will be increased once again soon. Mismanagement and corruption are the prime causes behind the massive losses in the government-owned enterprises. So, we urge the government to give importance to public interest, stop raising prices and tariffs and take urgent steps to remove the prevailing mismanagement and corruption.
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