The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has started selling sugar at a subsidised rate at some 11 important and crowded places in the capital.
People were seen in long queues on Monday afternoon to buy sugar at Tk 55 per kg from the trucks of TCB amid the inclement weather and incessant rain, reports BSS.
Such operation of the TCB has been kept open for all people as the interested ones alongside the TCB family card holders can avail sugar from such operation paying only Tk 55 per kg. But, any consumer can buy the highest 1 kg of sugar.
According to a press release, the TCB trucks are selling sugar at Malibagh Railgate Super Market, the adjacent road to the Mugda Medical College, New Market, Mirpur 10 Circle, Rampura Bazar, Motijheel Shapla Chattar, Mohammadpur Townhall Bazar, Shantinagar Bazar, Uttara Azampur Bazar, Kawranbazar TCB Square, and at Khamarbari in Farmgate.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection held a meeting on Monday with the mill owners, refiners, and wholesale and retail businessmen to keep the supply and price of sugar stable.
