State minister for commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Sunday said that efforts were on to sell products of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh among the common people through setting up permanent shops in the next financial year.
Besides, he said, plan is also there to sell TCB products among the mid-income group people at affordable prices in future.
Ahsanul said, 鈥楩rom the next fiscal year (FY25), we want to sell products through permanent shops so that the beneficiaries can take away products timely. We鈥檒l try to make a buffer stock of TCB products in the next fiscal year so that we can control the price of essentials although there may be shortage of supplies at kitchen markets in different times.鈥�
He said this while inaugurating sale operations of TCB products for the month of June at Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Play Ground in the capital鈥檚 Pallabi area.
He informed that the government had already signed an agreement with Russia while efforts were on to sign such agreement with other countries.
Ahsanul said that when one crore families got such essential items at subsidized rates, the demand for rice, sugar, lentil and edible oil were met to a significant extent.
鈥楾hrough providing four essential items at subsidised rates, we鈥檙e also controlling the pressure of price of essentials in the market,鈥� he said.
鈥楾here has been a bumper production of paddy in this season and our Directorate General of Food is procuring rice and paddy. Hopefully, we鈥檒l be able to control the price of rice also.鈥� he added.
In this June, some one crore TCB beneficiary families across the country will be provided 5 kilogram rice at Tk 30 a kilogram, 2 litre of soya bean oil at Tk 100 a litre, 2 kilogram of lentil at Tk 60 a kilogram and 1 kilogram of sugar at Tk 70 a kilogram in Dhaka. The price of per package will be Tk 540.
Commerce secretary Mohammad Selim Uddin and TCB chairman M Mostafa Kamal Iqbal, among others, were present on the occasion.
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