Keep essentials’ mkt stable during Ramzan

Staff Reporter :
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industries (FBCCI has asked the traders- retailers, wholesalers and mill owners to keep supply normal and prices within people’s buying capacity during the Holy month of Ramzan.
The apex body of the country’s businessmen made the call during a discussion on the stock, import, supply, and price scenario of daily essential commodities on Sunday morning at the its office in Dhaka.
While presiding over the meeting, FBCCI President Md. Jashim Uddin said traders need to be aware that no one can destabilise the market by creating artificial crises.
He urged the wholesale traders and retailers to issue invoices in order to keep the price of products stable.
The FBCCI president said business should be done in a systematic way to keep the price stable and normal. The mistrust issue of the common people towards the traders should be solved, he added.
Md. Jashim Uddin thanked the farmers for producing rice, wheat, and other products and keeping the supply chain normal.
FBCCI Senior Vice President Mostofa Azad Chowdhury Babu, in his welcome speech, said, “While traders from all over the world reduce the prices of products when there is any festival, The traders of our country increase the prices of products.”
He urged the businessmen to get out of the culture of increasing the prices of goods during the festival.
While speaking as the special guest, the Director General of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection A.H.M. Shafiquzzaman said, “When there is an unstable situation in the market, the traders are generalised as dishonest, which is harmful to the country’s economy. We need to get out of this tag.”
He said that it is necessary to have an invoice of sale to stop the anomaly price hike of the daily necessities.Mill owners, wholesalers, retailers, and other market associations have assured that there would be no shortage of edible Oil, sugar, pulses, gram, dates, and other products in the market during Ramzan.
FBCCI Vice President Md. Amin Helaly, Md. Habib Ullah Dawn, Chairman of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) Brigadier General Md. Ariful Hassan, Director Mohammad Anwar Sadat Sarker, Rejaul Kariem Renju, CIP, M.G.R. Nasir Majumder, Syed Moazzem Hossain, Mohammed Bazlur Rahman, Tabarakul Tosaddek Hossain Khan Tito, Abu Motaleb, Amzad Hussain, Akkash Mahmood and others were present at the meeting.