Market-monitoring intensified in Syangja

By Our Correspondent,Waling, Oct. 14: As the festival of Dashain is approaching, the District Administration Office, Syangja, has intensified market monitoring.

The DAO intensified the festival-targeted market monitoring with the coordination of local levels for a month.

Assistant Chief District Officer of Syangja Deepak Paudel said that the administration office has so far monitored the markets of Walling, Chapakot, Bhirkot and Galyang municipalities, and Arjun Chaupari, Harinas, Phedikhola and Kaligandaki rural municipalities.

The monitoring teams fined the shops operating by violating the rules and collected Rs. 400,000 as a fine.

The shops of Chapakot Municipality have been fined Rs. 200,000, the shops of Bhirkot Municipality were fined Rs. 105,000, of Galyang Rs. 25,000, of Walling Rs. 23,224, of Biruwa Rs. 10,000, and of Arjun Chaupari and Phidim Khola Rs. 5,000 each.

Traders of Kaligandaki and Harinas rural municipalities have been alerted, while Putali Bazaar Municipality and Andhikhola Rural Municipality are monitoring the market themselves.

Paudel said that market monitoring has been extended from the city to the village shops to control fraud and black marketing targeting the festival.

He said that during the monitoring, those who did not have a price list in the shop, who sold date-expired goods, who did not issue purchase and sale invoices, and those who were operating  the medicine shops without obtaining a registration permit, were fined.

Paudel said that a large amount of date-expired food items were confiscated and destroyed in the presence of the respective municipalities.

On the one hand, there was carelessness on the part of the sellers, the consumers tend to buy cheap goods on the other without looking at the label on the goods, he said.

Stating that the administration office has launched an information dissemination campaign, he emphasised that consumers should pay special attention while purchasing the goods.

During the monitoring of the shops, the price of the same item was found different from one shop to another 

The administration office monitored the Waling market on Thursday.

During the monitoring, it was found that drug stores, hardware stores and food stores in Walling did not keep price lists, there were different rates for the same item, and bills were not issued.

Assistant Chief District Officer Paudel said that a large quantity of food, including 10 sacks of date-expired rice was seized and destroyed from various shops operating in Waling Municipality.