Profit of 650 taka for 1 kg of hilsa
September 25, 20242 Mins Read
Jumbangla Desk: A businessman buys hilsa at the price of Tk 1550 per kg from Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market. A few yards away, the retail price of that fish is 2200 Tk. Gain 650 rupees per kg! Buyers hold the seller by the hand, consumer rights. Penalty!

Ilish

The National Consumer Rights Protection Department raided various hilsa markets and stores in the country on Wednesday (September 25) to control the rising prices of hilsa. Two special teams of the organization raided Rajdhani Karwan Bazar and Jatrabari wholesale fish market. The evidence of the increased price of hilsa was found during the market visit.

Abdul Jabbar Mondal, Assistant Director of the organization's Dhaka District Office, conducted the campaign in the caravan market of the capital.

He said, there is a doubt whether the price at which the hilsa is being sold by the traders is reasonable. The receipt of the sale is not being given. As a result, retailers are also getting an opportunity to increase prices.

Abdul Jabbar Mandal said that the businessmen should sell hilsa at a reasonable profit and the government has decided to export hilsa fish to India. As soon as the news came to light, the fish traders increased the price by Tk 200-300 per kg. These must be eliminated.

During the operation, this officer caught a businessman red handed. At that time, the businessman admitted his crime. As a result, he was fined two thousand rupees. However, the businessman claimed that the price was slightly increased. Then the fish is sold at a certain price. Otherwise there is no profit.

Abdul Jabbar Mondal said, retail traders are profiting up to 700 taka! The sad picture of excessive greed for profit is now in the fish market. The situation is the same all over the country. In this, hilsa is going beyond the purchasing power of the general consumer.

Consumer rights fined a fish trader 2 thousand rupees for making excessive profit. Photo: Biswajit Das Vijay

Meanwhile, after the operation, hilsa is being sold again at a higher price, when Abdul Jabbar Mandal was informed about this, he said that the mentality of the traders should be changed. These cannot be fixed by jail and fine. We don't want to go into action.

Mentioning that the weight is also manipulated along with the price, he said, many unscrupulous traders are cheating the consumers by manipulating the price as well as the weight. It must be closed. If this manipulation is not stopped, it will be forced to pay jail and fine.

Awami League leaders and activists have to pay money to return to the area

Earlier, consumer rights fined a total of 42,000 rupees to 5 traders of Karwan Bazar by conducting market raids.