Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) on Thursday started selling three daily essentials lentils, soybean oil and rice across the country. But not sugar and onions in January.
According to TCB, a customer with a TCB card can buy two litres of soybean oil or rice bran oil at a maximum rate of Tk 100 per kilogram (kg), 5 kg rice at Tk 30 and 2 kg lentil at Tk 60 per kg in a package of Tk 470.
Though, TCB sold sugar and onion in some parts of the country in December, but it will not sell these two products in January.