State Minister for Commerce Ahasanul Islam Titu on Sunday said the prices of essential commodities return to a reasonable level as the state agencies are working in this regard.

He said this while talking to reporters after a discussion meeting organised by the ministry at TCB Bhaban, Karwan Bazar in the capital, marking Bangabandhu’s 104th birth anniversary.

The minister said the Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM) has fixed the prices of 29 essential commodities.

“The DAM has its committees at the district, upazila, and central level. Our responsibility will be to monitor the prices of products from producer level to wholesale and then to retail level.”

He said that now the DAM, Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection, upazila nirbahi officers, and deputy commissioners will all coordinate together to bring down prices of daily necessities.

Hopefully, the price will come down to a logical level, he pointed out.

Amid soaring prices of commodities, the government has fixed prices of 29 essential products, including onion, broiler chicken, mutton, beef, and eggplant, at retail, wholesale, producer, and production levels.

In a circular issued on 15 March, the DAM requested the authorities concerned to sell the products at the newly fixed rates.