It is all about the power of Consumer Will.
In India, prices of essential commodities are skyrocketing and people are apathetic and political parties, especially the Opposition makes routine noises for they too do the same when they come to Power.
Take the instance of price hike of Kerosene,Diesel,Petrol and LPG(Cooking Gas).
The prices are no longer easily affordable for even an upper middle-income group.
The Government forgets that price rise of essential items such as the above will increase prices of all commodities further.
In the case LPG,people shall gravitate towards electric cooking appliances like Oven,Induction Stove, which will increase demand for electricity of which India is notoriously short.
Tax element in the prices of these products by the Central Government is very high.
What is the point in taxing more and use the money thus collected elsewhere?
When Essentials are not met, what is the point in talking about products for which the Government allocates money as project finance?
You can not eat a car or a skin bleaching cream.
Customers must bring the demand down to ensure reasonable pricing as has been done in the case under discussion.
Why not use Social Media to pressurize the Government?
Israel’s relatively small size and its tech-savvy and media-aware population enabled the protest to spread quickly. More than 105,000 people joined the Facebook group vowing to boycott cottage cheese until prices dropped. The campaign touched a nerve among Israelis concerned about rising prices and eroding salaries.
Spooked by the outrage, the three main Israeli dairy companies that control the market agreed to lower the price of a half-pound (250 gram) container to 5.90 shekels ($1.75) after it had risen to close to 8 shekels ($2.30).
