The 15 most essential food items which should have the maximum retail prices:

The 15 most essential food items which  should have the maximum retail prices:

The minister of finance Ravi Karunanayake had added that owing to the increase of most essential 15 consumer items the general public especially in the middle and lower middle class had been reluctant to buy them.  Hence the officials of the

finance ministry had decided to impose a controlled retail price limit to them.

These 15 essential consumer food items are sugar, b.onions, potatoes, mysoor dhal, dried chillies. tinned fish, green gram, garlic, gram,Kattaya dry fish,salaya dry fish, sprats,bread flour, milk powder and dhal.

These prices are to be fixed in the next two weeks and thereafter all retail dealers would have to display the selling prices that would be made compulsory. This was added my the minister Ravi Karunanayake. The wholesale dealers would have to price these essential consumer food items in such a manner that the retail merchants could sell them at the controlled prices as stipulated by the finance ministry.