Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that tariff cuts hardly helped in checking price hike of essentials making majority people impatient.
Lack of patience is not unusual, said the finance adviser while addressing a programme of the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation in the capital.
Consumers are not satisfied with prices, he said, blaming the indiscipline in the commodity market for the overall situation.
On Sunday, Saleduddin Ahmed was relieved from the charge of the Ministry of Commerce after looking into activities of the ministry for about three months.
The commerce ministry has been facing criticisms for failing to check the price hike of essentials for the past two years as overall inflation has remained a decade high.
The finance adviser said import duties on rice, sugar, edible oils, and eggs had been reduced, but still commodity prices have remained at the elevated levels.
He said that responsibility of containing volatility in price of essentials should not fall on the Ministry of Commerce alone.
He lauded the role of PKSF and gave credits all previous governments for supporting the apex funding agency of microcredit operations.
Remembering his stint with PKSF as the managing director in the past, Salehuddin lamented the lack of effective institutions despite presence of many public entities.
There are no efficient officers there amid the lack of accountability and transparency, he said in an indirect criticism of the Awami League regime.
The finance adviser iterated that they would leave footprints as advisers of the interim government so that the new elected government will compel to follow those.