Salanpur: Rupnarainpur or Hindustan Cables Township, is a census town in the Salanpur CD block in the Asansol Sadar subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The prices of essential commodities are very high so the Government of West Bengal constituted a Taskforce to work in coordination with the Police Department to contain the cost of essential products. The prices of potato onion and seasonal vegetables are high on the market.
The Taskforce which was formed to control the prices of essential commodities in collaboration with the police and the officials of the Enforcement Branch organized a campaign against the increase of the price of essential commodities along with the vegetables on Thursday in which they visited Rupnarayanpur market including many shops along with Chittaranjan market. The officials were furious to hear the prices of vegetables in the markets against the prices set by the task force. The officials also had a quarrel with the retail vegetable sellers regarding the price hike. The officials also visited the vegetable market, potato market, onion market, fish market and also checked small and big weighing scales.
They also registered cases, made penalties to those whose weighing scales were not verified in the weighing hooks during the investigation. The task force has been directed to normalize the prices of vegetables within the next week on the instructions of the West Bardhaman district administration.
The Task Force officer Mr. Subhranshu Singh Rai said: that the task force and the police will continue their campaign against the increase in prices of potatoes, onions, and vegetables and will try to solve the problem as soon as possible. They will also take actions to those who are violating the rules made by the government.
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R. Manoj Kumar Sharma
Siliguri City, West Bengal
