“I haven´t seen any change in the prices of edible oil despite recent actions against alleged hoarders,” said Rajendra Tuladhar, an oil vendor at Asan Bazaar, capital´s major commodity market.
According to Kalimati Fruits and Vegetables Market Development Board, price of small tomatoes and onions went down to Rs 46 and Rs 26 per kg on Monday from Rs 50 and Rs 27 per kg on Friday.
Similarly, carrots and cabbages are selling for Rs 75 and Rs 36 per kg from Rs 80 and Rs 40 respectively. Price of cauliflower also dipped by Rs 10 per kg to Rs 42 on Monday.
Prices of major fruits such as apples, mangoes and bananas have remained relatively unchanged.
Govt team finds no ´foul play´
Meanwhile, an investigating team of Kathmandu District Administration Office found that there was no hoarding of essential commodities in the Jadibuti-based warehouse of KL Dugar Group.
“We didn´t find any abnormal stocks of commodities. The stock match with the record maintained by the group,” said Tej Prasad Paudel, assistant Chief District Officer of Kathmandu, after four-hour long stock verification process.
Paudel, who led the verification team, also said decision to allow the group to sell the commodities would be taken after further analysis of the verification report.
The verification teams opened 11 warehouses of the group, which were sealed following raids on Friday.
The team collected stocks of rice, refined flour, lentil, split pigeon pea, vegetable ghee, mustard oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil among others. The group manufactures most of the commodities from its mills located in Nepalgunj, Birjunj and Biratnagar.
“We will continue to verify the stocks in other warehouses raided on the same day,” said Paudel.
In addition to KL Dugar´s ware houses, the officials had raided and sealed warehouse belonging to Pawan Agrawal and Pawal Bansal and a vegetable warehouse in Kalimati.
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