Maximum retail price for Mysore dhal, big onions and canned fish

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The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA), via an Extraordinary Gazette Notification yesterday, declared a maximum retail price for Mysore dhal, big onions and canned fish.

The Gazette notification was issued under the signature of CAA Chairman Major General (Rtd.) Shantha Dissanayake.

Accordingly, the maximum retail price of a kilogram of Mysore dhal would be Rs. 65, a kilo of big onions would be Rs. 150, and the maximum retail price for a (425g) tin of fish would be Rs. 100.

No importer, producer, packer, distributor or trader should sell, expose or offer for sale, display for sale the said items above the listed prices, the CAA said.

The maximum retail price was announced under the CAA Act, No. 09 of 2003 under the powers vested in it by Section 20(5).

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