People’s sufferings continue due to high living costs

Staff Reporter :
The middle income families are struggling hard to cope with the spiraling of daily essential items and because of other living costs including foodstuffs, medicines and utility service bills and others.
The overwhelming fixed income group is gasping and they were compromising with their living standard which is falling quickly against their limited income.
When it has become difficult to meet their daily needs and their recreational needs and their children are hardly served nowadays adequate protein amid the price hike of daily needs.
From the kitchen market to the fruits market, the poor and the middle income families face much difficulty as almost every item of vegetables price is above Tk 60 to Tk 70 per kilogram and the prices become volatile every day.
The prices of fish and meats essential for meeting the proteins of the body have gone beyond the reach of the purchasing capacity of the most families.
The prices of different local and exotic fruits have also been increased by Tk 30 or Tk40 per kilogram.
One of the biggest sweetmeat hubs located in Tangail has increased the prices of all kinds of sweetmeats by Tk 50 per kilogram.
Tangail District Restaurant and Sweetmeat Business Owners Samity set a new price of sweetmeat effective from October 1 over the excuse of high price of raw materials.
One kilogram Chamcham is now being sold at Tk 300 which was Tk 250 to Tk 260 last month. Thus per kilogram Rosogolla is now Tk 300, Sandesh Tk 700, Rosomalai Tk 400, Malaikari Tk 450 and yogurt Tk 300.
People who are dependent on lifesaving medicines are also the worst victims as the prices of some 52 items of medicines have been hiked a few days ago.
Many people said that their savings were being shrunk every day to
meet the demands of their daily needs and to save their lives.
Against the price hike of the daily essentials, different political parties including BNP have been staging countrywide demonstrations demanding the reduction of the skyrocketing prices to relieve the common people.
Even BNP’s recently announced countrywide programme also includes the protest against the price hike.
Meanwhile, on Monday Islami Muktijodha Projonmo Parishad urged the government and the concerned stakeholders to rein in the price hike of daily commodities and other costs in utility services.
“People’s life has become unbearable amid the abnormal price hike of fuels, daily essentials, loadshedding, rising bus fare. The corruptions, tender manipulation, by the ruling party have made people to suffer the worst,” President of Islami Muktijodha Projonmo Parishad Shahidul Islam Kabir in a statement said on Monday.
“Today people are at a loss as the prices of every item are increasing by leaves and bounds, whereas their income has not been increased. The farmers are losing interest in cultivating crops due to the price hike of agro inputs,” he added.
The government should have control on the corruption, looting and squandering of the state property, but no effective step is visible yet.
“We urge the government to take immediate effective measures to get rid of this situation in a bid to save the lives of the common people,” he added.