The Civic Supplies Department started selling potato at Rs 22 a kg from Wednesday in order to control hoarding and black-marketing of the vegetable , official sources said.
The department began selling potato through its five ‘Maitri’ counters and Udyan Fresh counters. In Cuttack, the department also started selling potato at Rs 20 a kg at four Maitri counters and Udyan Fresh counters. Even as vegetable vendors in Bhubaneswar sold potato at Rs 24 a kg, departmental officials visited different potato godowns in the city to check hoarding. “If any complaint comes to us, we will act on that,” said local Supplies Officer Deepak Kumar Satpathy.