The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling essential items at fair prices to 10 million low-income families on Sunday.
The government has already prepared a list of 8.7 million cardholders who will get two litres of edible oil, two kgs sugar and two kgs lentils.
The TCB will arrange “truck sale” across the country to sell edible oil at Tk110 per kg, sugar at Tk55 per kg, lentil at Tk65 per kg and onion at Tk30 per kg
In order to facilitate the sale of TCB's products in a systematic manner, a list of these families has been prepared and special family cards have been distributed.
Of these, 1.2 million families in Dhaka North and South City Corporation and 90 thousand families in Barisal City Corporation could not be issued the family cards. Therefore, all of TCB's products will be sold to them through mobile trucks.
The list has been prepared with the help of deputy commissioners, Upazila Nirbahi Officers and representatives at the union level.
TCB Chairman Brigadier General Md Ariful Hassan told UNB that in the first phase each beneficiary family will get two litres of edible oil, two kgs sugar and two kgs lentils from March 20 to 31.
There are a lot of floating people in Dhaka city areas and special marking methods will be applied to avoid duplication in providing the TCB products, he said.
