Bangladesh
TCB TCB products except onion-sugar available from today
Dhaka, Jan 18: Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), a government organization, has started the January product sales programme from today Thursday (January 18) across the country including Dhaka metropolitan. However, the organization will not sell sugar and onion this month.
In a press release on Wednesday (January 17), the TCB authorities said that the sale of TCB products such as rice, edible oil and pulses at a subsidized price among one crore low-income beneficiary card-holding families under the overall guidance of the Ministry of Commerce under the initiative of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Soybean oil or rice bran oil, lentils and rice will be sold at subsidized prices to 1 crore family card-holding low-income families across the country in January.
According to the instructions, in the month of January, a family card holder can buy a maximum of 2 kg of lentils at the rate of Tk 60 per kg, 5 kg of rice at the rate of Tk 30 per kg and 2 liters of soybean oil or rice bran oil at the rate of Tk 100.
Although TCB sold sugar and onion in some parts of the country subject to availability in December, TCB will not sell these two products in January.
TCB's product sales activities will be conducted from designated dealers' shops or designated permanent establishments with the overall cooperation of City Corporation, District and Upazila administrations and according to their scheduled date and time plan. Cardholder consumers will also be able to collect family cardholder products from designated dealers.
Meanwhile, it is reported that Commerce State Minister Ahsanul Islam Titu will inaugurate this program on Mohammadpur Taj Mahal Road on Thursday.
