lack of quality monitoring and arbitrary fixing of prices of daily need items by the owners of grocery shops in the district headquarters by the Food Department officials have increasingly started annoying consumers.
The other core issue being confronted by the consumers is the unchecked menace of adulteration of food items which, they say, had largely gone unchecked in the district headquarters. The menace of price rise and adulteration have been compounded by official apathy to register cases against grocery shop owners indulging in such malpractices.
The consumers have also complained about inferior quality potatoes and onions being sold by the merchants without any fear in the absence of any quality check being performed on the vegetables being sold in the market. The menace has spread to the extent of puja material such a coconut of inferior quality being sold in the markets.