TCB starts selling of commodities at subsidized prices on Sunday

The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling essential commodities at subsidized prices across the country from Sunday for the month of September 2024.

Under such a move, rice at subsidized prices alongside lentil and edible oil will be sold among someone crore family card holders by the TCB dealers from their shops or permanent structures in cooperation with the concerned city corporations, district and upazila administrations on a certain date and time.

Each family cardholder will be able to buy a maximum of two litres of edible oil at Tk 100 per litre, two kilograms of lentil at Tk 60 per kg and five kg of rice at Tk 30 per kg.