{"id":131824,"date":"2020-07-18T03:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=131824"},"modified":"2020-07-18T03:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:14:04","slug":"veggies-meat-becoming-unaffordable-in-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/veggies-meat-becoming-unaffordable-in-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Veggies, meat becoming unaffordable in capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 17:<\/strong> Vegetables and meat are becoming unaffordable for most people as prices have skyrocketed since the capital region lockdown was announced on 6 July.<br \/>\nWhile the main vegetable markets remain closed, the sector markets are open on select days, but all perishable items are being sold at much higher prices.<br \/>\nPotatoes are being sold for Rs 50\/kg, which is the cheapest, while other vegetables are sold at well above Rs 120\/kg.<br \/>\nThe Itanagar capital region (ICR) administration has pegged the price of potatoes at Rs 35\/kg in retail. Onion per kilo is Rs 35, but is being sold at twice the price. So is the case with garlic: the retail price is Rs 130 per kg but it is being sold for more than Rs 200\/kg.<br \/>\nLocal green chillies per kilo is anywhere between Rs 500 and 800.<br \/>\nA kilo of beef costs Rs 400, whereas the retail price is marked at Rs 250\/kg for beef flesh and Rs 200\/kg with bone.<br \/>\nPork, which usually sells for Rs 300\/kg, is now being sold for Rs 400\/kg. Pork remains banned in the capital region after an outbreak of the African swine flu, but is available in some of the sector markets.<br \/>\nRice and oil are being sold more or less at the retail prices marked by the DA.<br \/>\nICR DC Komkar Dulom has stated that violators will be booked under relevant sections of the Arunachal Agricultural Produce &amp; Livestock Marketing (Regulation) Act, 2017 (Act No 10 of 2018), and under relevant sections of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.<br \/>\nHe has directed the ADM, all the administrative officers, the controller of legal metrology &amp; consumer affairs, and the police to ensure that the consumers are not charged beyond the maximum retail prices by the retailers.<br \/>\nHowever, few seem to be following the order as perishable items, especially meat and vegetables, are being sold at much higher prices.<br \/>\n&#8220;We can&#8217;t afford to bargain with the only few shops in our locality when the main markets are closed and people aren&#8217;t allowed to go out too far. Since we know the vendors, we can&#8217;t even complain directly against them,&#8221; said a customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jul 17: Vegetables and meat are becoming unaffordable for most people as prices have skyrocketed since the capital region lockdown was announced on 6 July. While the main vegetable markets remain closed, the sector markets are open on select days, but all perishable items are being sold at much higher prices. Potatoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}