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Choharwa Livestock Market: Exceeding service fee 'recovery'
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Highlights
- Farmers say, "They collect money as they like, but they don't add it to the bill."
Golbazar municipality-7 of Siraha, there is a large mango orchard in the north of the highway located in Old Choharwa. Animal market has been going on in the same garden for four decades. This animal market which is held every Monday and Thursday is so famous that animal buyers come here from most districts of Madhes.
Golbazar Municipality contracts this animal market every year. For this year 2080/81, Golbazar's standard construction service has been awarded the contract . According to the municipality, he was given a contract for 35 lakh 11 thousand rupees.
According to the contract agreement, the contractor can get 250 rupees per head from selling or buying cows, bulls, buffaloes, horses, calves, fodder in the market. Similarly, it is mentioned in the contract agreement that 500 rupees per seed can be taken from selling or buying seeds.
Similarly, the municipality has set a service fee of Rs 200 per pair for buying or selling goats, goats, goats, and only Rs 50 per pair for buying or selling plows. However, the consumer complains that the contractor has been charging arbitrarily in the name of service fee in the market.
Ramdayal Singh of Golbazar municipality-12, Betouna sold a padi for 26 thousand rupees in the market on Monday. However, Singh said that he was charged Rs 350 for the service fee of Rs 250. "According to the rules, I heard Rs 250," he told Kantipur, "but here they don't accept it, it's the contractor's choice." He said that he had to pay 600 rupees for buying two calves. 'They should only charge five hundred, but they charge more,' he said, 'I keep coming two or three times a month, and they try to leave if they don't agree ?' are only . It has been found that the contractor has been extorting arbitrarily from everyone who comes to this market. It has also been found that the service fee is not mentioned in the receipt given to the shopper .
'They take money at will, but they don't pay it in the bill,' said Birendra Mahato of Arnama Rural Municipality, 'If they don't write in the bill, they threaten them instead of giving money, they are in a group, even when there is a dispute, so no one says anything.' It is not done. However, Ramautar Yadav, a livestock trader of Dhangadhimai Municipality, complained that the municipality did not listen to the market. 'We inform the municipality about this time and again,' he said, 'but how can there be improvement after everyone agrees?' Mohan Yadav, the owner of 
standard construction services, claims that the service fee is collected based on the rate provided by the municipality. "Whatever the municipality has said, we are taking it the same way," he said, "everything else is wrong". ; He said that now the market will be monitored and action will be taken if found.
प्रकाशित : भाद्र २०, २०८१ १३:५९
