Salt Trading to provide 10 quintals of sugar to retailers

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Nov. 6: The Salt Trading Corporation is to provide up to 10 quintals of sugar to retailers for sale, thanks to the initiatives taken by the office of the Council of Ministers and the Prime Minister.

The Office of the Prime Minister has arranged for the Salt Trading Corporation to purchase at least 3,000 metric tons of sugar from sugar mills as the shortage of sugar surfaced in the market.

The PM office has also directed chiefs of the security forces of the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley to mobilise a monitoring team to for search sugar purchased illegally and stored.

The retailers can purchase the aforesaid amount of sugar from the Kalimati branch of Salt Trading till today, Monday, and from Tuesday onwards they can get it from the Koteshwor branch of Salt Trading.

Arrangement has been made in such a way that the customer can purchase sugar at Rs. 115 per kg.