The government will launch a special open market sale (OMS) program for three months in the 14 flood-hit districts under the Chittagong and Sylhet divisions, aiming to provide the affected people with rice and flour at subsidized rates.
Ismail Hossain, secretary to the food ministry, came up with the information while talking to reporters at a press briefing held over the food stock and the government’s assistance for the flood victims.
The special OMS will be provided to 230 centres in those affected districts and every day 230 tons of rice and 230 tons of flour will be sold from these centres.
A total of 14,490 tons of rice and 14,490 tons of flour will be sold under the special OMS program in September, October and November, he said.
Per kg of rice will be sold at Tk30, flour at Tk24 and packet flour (each packet contains 2kg) at Tk55, he added.
The food ministry will provide Tk90,68,18,682 as subsidy for the special food program.
Besides, the selling of rice and flour under OMS program in all district headquarters and municipalities in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Narsingdi districts will underway.
Mentioning that there is no scarcity of food, the food secretary said people do not need to worry over it.
Till August 31, a total of 1,125,000 tons of rice have been procured against the 1.1 million tons.
