The country is in the grip of severe price hike in the consumers goods and persons in the fixed income groups are the worst sufferers. More often than not, the economists link the increase in the price index of essential commodities to the increase in the fuel price at international level which, in turn, does result in the increase of its price domestically. Once fuel price is up the transport charges also go up automatically as a result of which rate of essential goods also register an upward trend. The tragedy is that, whenever, there is a drop in the fuel price at the international level its benefit is never passed on to the common man in this country. Prices of consumers goods which once go up as a result of increase in the petrol price are never reduced when petrol price shows a downward trend. Even a cursory glance at the price index of the edibles and other essential commodities would reveal that it has become exceedingly difficult for the common man to make his both ends meet. The administration has miserably failed to checkmate the grown and growing spiral in the price of essential commodities. Where are the district price review committees which once used to meet once a month under the chairmanship of the deputy commissioner without fail to manage the price structure of consumer goods?
This summer is certainly going to be a summer of discontent for the common man in this country. It is sheer good fortune of the PTI government that the opposition is in a disarray. Its leadership is mired in mega corruption cases. Despite the unsatisfactory performance of the PTI, the common man still considers it as a lesser evil as compared to the opposition parties and is willing to give it some more time to set the country’s house in order.
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