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CAPD mutton rates irk consumers 9/21/2015 11:32:27 PM Mohd Irfan Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 21: With just a few days left for Eid-ul-Azha, the Consumer affairs distribution department (CAPD) has fixed the rate of meat. However, he rates have ired the consumers. Sources informed Early Times that earlier sanctioned rate of meat Rs 280 per kg and same is being increased to Rs 340 per kg and butchers are already defying the Government sanctioned rates. They sell it at Rs 320 -340 Per kg. The CAPD new rate (Rs 340 per kg) has come as shock to the consumers. Castigating the CAPD department for fixation of meat at exorbitant price, a consumer Mohd Amin said "the increase in the prices of meat is totally "irrational". The butchers now get a freedom to sell a meat more than the sanctioned rate as they give damn to the instructions of the CAPD. "Fixation of rate of live goats/sheep at Rs 170 per kg is also flayed by the consumers as when the retailers come to sell these animals they sell the same at their whims and fancies as they don't have the "mandatory weighing machine" for animals which results in profits for these retailers and CAPD hardly check this menace which is necessary in larger interest of the consumers "rued a consumer Arif. It has also been observed that butchers and consumers loc horns frequently over the rates. Official of the CAPD asking not to be named said" we have fixed the rate after taking into confidence different stakeholders and Minister has constituted a committee to check the markets coupled with trying our level best to check malpractice".   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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