- Last Update 2024-12-11 16:27:00
Revised Maximum Retail Price on Rice gazetted
The government has gazetted fresh maximum retail prices for local and imported rice today.
Accordingly the government issuing two separate gazettes imposed maximum retail prices for both locally produced rice as well as imported rice verities.
According to the gazette the Consumer Affairs Authority has ordered that the no of Manufacturer, Producer and Supplier, Distributor or Trader shall sell Supply or offer to sell local verities of rice exceeding the Maximum prices gazetted and immediately effective from today.
The government had also imposed a maximum price for wholesale sale of local rice.|
Variety |
Maximum Wholesale price |
Maximum Retail price |
|
White/Red Raw Rice - Local |
Rs 215 – per Kg |
220 – per Kg |
|
White/Red Nadu Rice - Steamed /Boiled - Local (excluding Mottaikarupan and Attakari) |
Rs -225 per Kg |
Rs 230 -Per Kg |
|
White/Red Samba Rice - Raw and Steamed /Boiled - Local (excluding Suduru Samba) |
Rs -235 per Kg |
Rs 240 -per Kg |
|
Keeri Samba Rice- Raw and Steamed/ Boiled - Local |
Rs 255 per Kg |
Rs 260 per Kg |
Meanwhile in a separate gazette consumer Affairs Authority orders that that no Importer, Supplier, Distributor or Trader shall sell, supply, expose or Offer for sale, display for sale the Imported varieties of rice exceeding the Maximum Retail Prices given.
|
Variety |
Maximum retail price |
|
Imported Raw rice |
Rs 210 -per Kg |
|
Imported Nadu rice |
Rs 220 – Per Kg |
|
Imported Samba Rice |
Rs 230- Per Kg |
The government resorted to revise the maximum retail price of rice as the millers had pointed out that they were unable to supply rice at the MRP prices gazetted in 2022 owing to the increased cost of production.
The move came following talks held between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and leading paddy millers, last week on the rice shortage in the market. At this meeting, the millers demanded an upward revision of the controlled price.
President Dissanayake had instructed Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) officials to closely monitor the situation over the next 10 days and strictly enforce the law against rice mill owners if they failed to comply with the fixed prices.
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