TCB starts selling of commodities at affordable prices today

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) starts selling essential items from today among some one crore family card holders across the country at subsidized rates for the month of October.

Commerce minister Tipu Munshi will formally inaugurate the operations of the programme tomorrow at 10:00 am at Dhanmondi Lake, Dingi, Road No 8/A in the capital.

The TCB said that its sales operations for the month of October will start from tomorrow across the country, including Dhaka metropolis, with the aim of delivering TCB products (edible oil, sugar, rice, lentil and onions) to one crore family card holder beneficiary families at subsidized prices.

This sales activity will be conducted from the dealer's shop/designated permanent establishment with the overall cooperation of the City Corporation, District and Upazila administrations and as per their scheduled date and time plan.

During this period, a cardholder can buy a maximum of two liters of soybean oil/rice bran oil, two kg of lentil, 5 kg of rice, one kg of sugar and 2 kg of onions.

Under the sale operations, Soybean oil will be sold at Tk 100 per liter, sugar at Tk 70 per kg (subject to availability in some places), lentil at Tk 60 per kg, onion at Tk 35 per kg (subject to availability of imported onion only for Dhaka metropolis) and rice at Tk 30 per kg.