BY Dinitha RathnayakeConsumer rights activists are to conduct a silent protest today (5) in front of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) due to the extraordinary gazette issued removing maximum retail prices (MRPs) imposed on certain essential commodities. The Government has removed the retail price cap on several essential commodities through a recent extraordinary gazette notification, thereby cancelling the gazette notifications previously issued imposing MRPs on such. The following seven gazette notifications previously published by the CAA have been rescinded by the new communiqué:Order No. 39 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 2048/30 on 6 December 2017 for MRP on dried fish, coconut, dried chilies, Maldive fish, and several other itemsOrder No.

Source: The Nation November 05, 2021 06:00 UTC