SYANGJA: Syangja district has seen salt shortage at a time when Salt Trading Corporation is saying that there is no shortage of salt in market.
Consumers have suspected that the traders have created artificial shortage of salt for its sale in an elevated price later. With high media coverage on salt shortage in market, the traders created artificial shortage of salt to sell the essential consumptive goods for huge profit margin later, said consumers.
There was a huge crowd of locals approaching small shops for buying salt following rumour on salt shortage abuzz.
However, traders said that the shortage is when each consumer purchased 5-7 packs of salt due to fear of its short supply later.
Consumers said that they are compelled to buy a pack of salt up to Rs 100 in a secret manner after short supply of salt in market.
Meanwhile, Syangja Chief District Officer Krishna Bahadur Raut said that market monitoring will be undertaken after consulting office-bearers of Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Waling and Syangja.
He pledged to carry out raid in the stores of traders and take action if any of them have attempted to create artificial shortage of salt.
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