A team comprising officials from District Administration Office, Kathmandu, Nepal Police, Department of Commerce (DoC) and representatives of different consumer rights groups, Sunday took record of stocks and current selling prices of food commodities at four wholesale stores in Kalimati and Kuleshwar areas. [break]
Anil Thakur, director general of DoC, said market monitoring has formally started from Sunday and added that the traders did not cooperate with the team by shutting their stores before the team reached there for monitoring.
“We have asked owners of the four stores that we inspected on Sunday to furnish details of the commodities that they have in stock and along with existing prices,” Thakur told myrepublica.com.
The team will concentrate on wholesale market in the first phase of market monitoring.
In an effort to curb black marketing and check skyrocketing prices of commodities, the government last week decided to increase market monitoring and inspection.
Virgin Mobile announces lucky winners
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Virgin Mobile Sunday announced the lucky draw winners for its second anniversary offer it launched from June 7 to 25.
Under the offer, customers were given a ´Scratch & Win´ coupon on every purchase made at the store. This voucher entitled the customer for a first prize worth Rs 100,000, mobile set worth Rs 50,000 as second prize, mobile set worth Rs 30,000 as third prize and exciting gift hampers worth Rs 4,500 to five lucky customers.
Similarly, 100 lucky winners were offered exciting gift hampers as consolation prize. Rupak Regmi was awarded the first prize while Dipendra Bikram Shahi and Tika Samkhada were awarded second and third prize respectively.
NCC Bank starts bill payment facilities
KATHMANDU, Aug 1: NCC Bank has started bill payment facilities for PSTN users of Nepal Telecom. PSTN users of Nepal Telecom can now pay their telephone bill through NCC Bank now, the bank said in a statement on Sunday.
NCC Bank operates with a network of 17 branches across the country. Customers can pay telephone bill through any branch of the bank, the statement added.
Prior to this, the bank had introduced payment facility for post-paid mobile users of Nepal Telecom. The bank is planning to offer it customers with the facility of paying ADSL internet bill through the bank.
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