Arbitrary rise in milk price irk Karachiites

A house-wife in Liaquatabad said that City District Government has failed to keep milk retailers under control. They do not listen to anybody and they do not have any fear, she maintained. She said that poor man cannot buy milk for his children at this rate.

It may be recalled that CDGK has failed to force milk retailers to sell milk at its old prescribed prices. The new increase has posed a challenge to the authority of CDGK.

Faiz Ali, a milk retailer in the same area said that milk price has been increased after the wholesalers raised its prices. Joint secretary Karachi Dairy Farmers Association Shaukat Mukhtar said that wholesalers have enhanced the price of milk by only Rs 60 per maund (37.5 litres) due to sky-rocketing input prices.

“In fact, we are getting only Rs 50 as the middlemen charge Rs 10 on the transportation of one cane of 37.5 litre,” he argued. “We were selling milk at Rs 1370 per maund in wholesale. Now we are selling it at Rs. 1430 per maund. The increase is only Rs 1.6 on each litre”, he added.