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Prices of Cooking Gas and Sugar Rise
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
January 8, 2010: Increasing the prices of the government-controlled cooking gas and sugar, the government of Prime Minister Madhav Nepal defeated in two constituencies has shown that he is not accountable to the people. The government-run company called Nepal Oil Corporation has increased Rs 125 per a cylinder of cooking gas of 15 kg. Similarly, the government-run company Salt Trading has not been able to supply the required quantity of sugar. The market price of sugar has been Rs 80 per kg increasing Rs 30 per kg. Minister of Supplies and Commerce has been saying that the government is importing sugar from Brazil and China since Madhav Nepal became the Prime Minister but has done nothing as in the case of electricity importing from India.
The media reports have it that the concerned Minister has been working with the sugar mill ownership to keep the short supply of sugar not importing sugar for keeping the price of sugar as high as possible to make money for the minister and certainly for the sugar mill owners at the cost of the Nepalis in general and the poor in particular.
