DNCRP finds shops selling edible oil at higher prices

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The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Sunday continued their market monitoring activities in the backdrop of charging excessive prices of edible oil in markets of Dhaka city.
The directorate officials, during their search in Moulovibazar wholesale market of Old Dhaka area, found that soya bean oil and palm oil were being sold at higher prices than the rates fixed by the government.
For past few days, traders in Dhaka, like elsewhere in the country, have been charging exorbitantly high prices for edible oil showing different excuses, including supply shortage.
DNCRP assistant director Fahmina Akter said that they found four shops charging higher prices for edible oil and fined them Tk1.6 lakh.
The directorate officials said that the government had set the price of unpackaged soya bean oil at Tk 143 a litre but the item was being sold for Tk 157 a litre in the shops.