Bhogali Bihu delicacies with pinching prices glut Guwahati

 Portable mejis costing Rs 500-2500 each hog limelight

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GUWAHATI: Bhogali Bihu munchies with pinching prices have glutted the Guwahati market on the eve of Uruka today.

Apart from markets almost everywhere in the city, Bhogali melas at various places have drawn buyers. Despite skyrocketing prices, people buy traditional Assamese snacks like pithas, laddus, cream, soft rice, joha rice, powdered rice, pithaguri, teel, cheera (beaten rice) etc. Sweeteners including gur (jaggery), dahi (curd), molasses, etc., are a must for Bhogali Bihu.

People crowded areas like Ganeshguri, Ulubari, Khanapara, Six Mile, Beltola, Bamunimaidam, Chandmari, Narengi, Ambari, Panbazar, Paltan Bazar, Adabari, Maligaon etc., in the metropolitan city. In all the markets in the city, prices are more than last year. While a kg of teel costs Rs 190-200 against Rs 60 last year, a kg of black lentil costs Rs 200 against Rs 160 last year, each kg of joha (scented rice) and bora chowl (sticky rice) costs Rs 100 against Rs 80, a kg of ronga bora chowl (red sticky rice) costs Rs 100-120, a kg of khejur gur costs Rs 100-120, a kg of local jaggery costs Rs 80-120, a litre of curd costs Rs 120-150, a kg of powdered rice costs Rs 100, a kg of cream costs Rs 600-700, each pair of coconut costs Rs 100, a kg of pithaguri costs Rs 70, ten pieces of ladu cost Rs 60, ten pieces of teel pitha and narikol pitha cost Rs 60, etc.

Most of the Bhogali Bihu items have come to Guwahati from rural areas - curd from Ramdiya, Sorbhog and Gorukhuti; various types of jaggery from Nagaon, Nalbari, Mangaldai, Dergaon, Golaghat, etc.; and Joha chowl, komal chowl, khanduguri and pithaguri from Jamugurihat, Nalbari, Naharkotia, Mangaldai etc.

Portable mejis have also glutted the Guwahati markets from Sonapur, Chandrapur, Hajo, Dodora, etc. places. Each of such mejis of five-eight-foot tall costs Rs 500-2,500.

Chicken, fish, mutton and many other types of meat are also available in the market.

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