The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling commodities including rice at subsidised rates through truck sales from Thursday among the common consumers in Dhaka and Chattogram.
Under such an initiative, essential items like edible oil, and lentils alongside rice provided by the Directorate General of Food would be sold among general consumers at subsidised rates through 50 trucks in Dhaka metropolis and 20 trucks in Chattogram metropolis while such operations will continue until November 30, 2024, said a TCB press release.
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 a maximum of 2 liters of edible oil at Taka 100 per liter, 2 kgs of lentils 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 lentils at subsidised prices among some crore family card holders and low-income group people under the overall directives of the Ministry of Commerce.
