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Go tough against food adulterators

DCs asked to strengthen market monitoring to check profiteering ahead of Ramadan

Staff Correspondent
Commerce Minister GM Quader instructed the deputy commissioners yesterday to take "drastic and exemplary" action against food adulterators and profiteers in basic food business.
The minister advised the DCs to include the local elite in the market moni-
toring teams to check syndicates, which often disrupt the supply chain and create artificial crises of basic commodities in order to make high profit.
Sometimes the syndicates of local traders attack even the executive magistrates during market visits, he said, adding: “If the local elite accompany the
monitoring learns, the traders will not be able to attack the magistrates.”
"We are conducting drives to control the prices of basic commodities. We will reinforce the drives in the upcoming Ramadan.
"Apply the laws against the profiteers. You [DCsl have been empowered greatly under the consumer rights protection laws. The law has provisions for even the death penalty," Quader said while addressing the DCs at the three-day DCs' conference that began on Tuesday in the capital.
At the grassroots level, a section of traders manipulate the essential market through monopoly, he said, adding that the ministry had already formed eight district-level committees under the law to bring the wrongdoers to book.
Similar committees in other districts would be formed soon, he said, and urged the deputy commissioners to promote the products of their districts.
"We are trying to expand the list of export items through the ministry's one-district one-product project. Eighty percent of our exports are readymade garments and our markets are also limited only in the EU, the US, Canada and Japan," Quadersaid.
Ue said exports indeed fell slightly in the last fiscal year. But he said he disagreed with those critics who said it had been a bad year for exports.
Over the last few years, the government has been trying to increase exports to countries like India, Russia and Sou th Africa.
At the request of the Bogra DC at the meeting, the minister instantly instructed the chairman of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh to set up a depot there for smooth distribution of goods.
Industries Minister Dilip Barua asked the DCs to prevent mismanagement in fertiliser distribution and create investment cells under them to provide services to domestic and international investors.