Kanpur: The festival is just spreading joys but this happiness mars at the market. Nothing is affordable at the time.
Even a string of decorative lights with a length of ten metres sells at the cost of Rs 60 per piece. The price gets higher with the increase in the length of the string.
One reacted: Previously we abandoned the earthen diyas and toys owing to hike in the cost of making these items. Presently the cheaper electronic items are also becoming dearer and thereby beyond our reach.
Even the vegetables are not exempted from the sting of the price rise. A common item like potato is selling at Rs 40 per kg in the weekly market of KDA Colony in Jajmau here. This is the latest rate on Friday Bazaar.
There remains no chance of reduction in the rate once spoken by the seller.
The principle of fixed-rate runs in the vegetable market like the woollen clothes sold at the refugee market.
