The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling commodities including rice at subsidized rates through truck sale from today (Wednesday) among the common consumers in Dhaka and Chattogram.
Under such an initiative, essential items like edible oil, lentil alongside rice provided by the Directorate General of Food would be sold among general consumers at subsidized rates through 50 trucks in Dhaka metropolis and through 20 trucks in Chattogram metropolis while such operations will continue until November 30, 2024, said a TCB press release on Wednesday
It said such operations of the TCB could be extended until the inflationary situation comes to a tolerable level. Under this move, each consumer can buy maximum 2 liters of edible oil at Taka 100 per liter, 2 kgs of lentil at Taka 60 per kg and 5 kgs of rice at Taka 30 per kg.
Adviser to the interim government on the Ministries of Youth and Sports as well as Labour and Employment Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan will inaugurate the operations at 10:00 am tomorrow at Dakhshin Begunbari (Dipikar Mor), Tejgaon Industrial Area in the capital.
The press release said that the TCB has been continuing its operations for selling essential items like edible oil and lentil at subsidized prices among some one crore family card holder low-income group people under the overall directives of the Ministry of Commerce.
