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১২ আগস্ট, ২০২৩ ১১:৩৭ অপরাহ্ণ
TCB starts selling essentials from Sunday, sugar won't be sold
TCB
starts selling essentials from Sunday, sugar won't be sold
The
state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling essentials
from Sunday at subsidised prices as part of its selling operations for the
month of August.
The TCB will sell such essential items among
some one crore family card holders across the country.
However,
buyers will not receive sugar this time.
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi will formally
inaugurate the operations at the west-side road of Town Hall Market in the
city's Mohammadpur area.
TCB Humayun Kabir said some one crore family
card holders would be able to buy red lentil, edible oil and rice at subsidised
prices for the month of August.
The family card holders will be able to buy such
items from their designated areas or designated distributors in their
respective areas.
Alongside the operations of the TCB, the
Directorate General of Food has started selling of rice at subsidised prices
from last month as one family card holder would be able to buy maximum 5kgs of
rice.
Humayun said a family card holder would be able
to buy maximum two liters of soybean oil at Tk 100 per liter, 2 kgs of red
lentil at Tk 60 per kg and 5 kgs of rice at Tk 30 per kg.
He said the Directorate General of Food would
provide rice as per the requirements of the TCB dealers.
Then the dealers would carry rice to their
designated places and thus sell those among the family card holders.