Mamata to review prices of essential commodities on August 16

Stating this after a meeting of the task force at the state secretariat, general secretary of the Forum of Traders Organisation in the state Rabindra Nath Koley said the meeting today expressed concern with the rise in prices of many essential commodities, even as the vegetable prices have come down to some extent.

Koley, who is also a member of the task force, said that even as supply of potato to other states have been banned by the government, potato price has not come down considerably.

Forward trading of potato should be withdrawn to bring the potato price under control, he said.

Even as vegetable prices have come down to some extent, the prices of sugar, rice, wheat and flour were going up day by day, he said.

"The entire issue will be reviewed in a meeting with the CM on August 16," he added.