Salem: The price of salt went up to 200- 350/kg in Salem after rumours over its shortage spread like fire on Monday evening. Sivakumar , of Kitchipalayam, said he purchased 2kg of salt for 700 from a grocery store. Immediately, I rushed to the nearest grocery store to buy salt," he said. Salt was sold at a price of 200 to 350/kg, he said. He also advised the traders not to use the situation to jack up the price of salt but to inform their customers that it was just a rumour.Recently, similar rumours had spread in several other states and price of salt went up manifold.
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