BAJAUR, Dec 1: The prices of daily use commodities have increased to about 45 per cent in Bajaur during the holy month of Ramazan.

According to a survey, the price of beef which was Rs50 per kilogramme before Ramazan has shot up to Rs70 per kg, mutton which was being sold at Rs110 per kg is now available at Rs140 per kg and the price of minced meat was Rs90 before Ramazan but now it is being sold at Rs160 per kg.

Tomatoes which were available at Rs5 per kg are now being sold at Rs20 per kg.

The prices of banana, apple, peas, bean and other commodities have also shot up in Ramazan.

One of the things which has been bothering the common man in the holy month is the shortage, and at places non-availability, of the liquid petroleum gas cylinders. According to the survey, shortage of the LPG started from the very beginning of Ramazan.

The LPG is being sold from Rs70 to Rs80, despite the fact that the local administration has fixed Rs40 per kg in the holy month.

Meanwhile, the political administration has launched a drive against the shopkeepers of several trade centres of the Agency who were charging the customers more than the prices fixed by it.

Fifty-five shopkeepers, butchers, substandard suppliers and five local LPG dealers have been arrested during the drive, an official of the local administration told Dawn on Sunday.

He said the LPG dealers would be fined for violating the price review committee agreement. He claimed that the stores of five LPG dealers were sealed.