Prohibitive prices
If you are a routine bazaar goer, you will feel the real pinch while buying either fish or vegetables. None of the very ordinary fish like puti, tengra, telapia etc could you buy for less than Tk 200 per kg. and to mention the frail 'batashi' , it sells above Tk 300 per kg! Whereas these are the fish that the middle and lower middle class people could live on with the fringe of their limited income. We have no headache about other variety of fish usually bought by the rich from mega shops. Who is there to look into this kind of rip-off by fish sellers? The old saying, 'mache bhate Bangalee' that had some semblance until the recent past is now totally a stale and sour word to swallow.
As for vegetables, how come each of the main items like patal, bhendi, jhinga, dhundol etc sells at Tk 25 or above and karola at Tk 30-36 or more per kg.? The potato, a daily item of need, is selling at Tk 25 per kg and the green chillies sell at the chilling price of Tk 60 per kg.
The country is not under floodwater that growing of vegetables has been affected to make them so pricey.
The government cannot put the blame on its predecessor or the immediate past CTG. It must see its flaws and take appropriate measures to rein in the prices, or the dealers and extortionists.
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