trichy the skyrocketing prices of tur dal and urad dal prompted the food cell wing of the police to prepare a list of major traders in the city to check whether essential food items are hoarded in their godowns meanwhile the cooperative department identified 14 outlets run by the cooperative societies to sell tur dal at concessional prices as announced by chief minister j jayalalithaa a highly placed source in the district administration said food cell officials in trichy asked for the list of essential commodities traders in the market following the orders from the higher police officials in chennai there is a suspicion that the traders hoarded the tur and urad dal for quick bucks by utilizing the price hike caused by the fall in production so they started the preliminary investigation said an official on the condition of anonymity however the traders associations blame the government for failing to raid corporate companies which allegedly hoard varieties of dal directly purchased from north indian farmers the slump in production of dal has its impact on the price on the other hand the illegal stocking of the lakhs of tonnes of grains particularly dal by corporate giants causes a sudden hike of the essential commodity so the government should take action on those people to bring down the price of dal said general secretary of tamil nadu traders federation ve govindarajulu as on tuesday the tur dal was priced at rs 210 per kg while the urad dal was sold at rs 170 per kg in the retail grocery shops the sudden hike in the price of dal keeps people from staying away from the expensive pulses the sale of number of kilograms of tur dal has come down from 10kg to 3kg after the price hike now expecting a change as the people will have to buy the dal to celebrate the navaratri festival said a grocery shop owner in palakkarai in the city in consequent to the chief ministers announcement to sell 500 tonnes of tur dal imported by the union government trichy cooperative societies department selected its 14 outlets to begin the sale of tur dal from november 1 the concessional price would be rs 55 per half kg and rs 110 per kg people of trichy city can avail the dal at four outlets headquarters teppakulam ammamandapam bhel run by chinthamani cooperative society another four outlets headquarters golden rock bhel srinivasa nagar run by amaravathi cooperative societies srirangam ranganathar store outlet thiruvanaikaval store outlet kallukuzhi cooperative outlet subramaniapuram outlet sundar nagar outlet and sangiliyandapuram outlet