Government agency Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) truck sales activities are starting again from Monday (February 10) after being closed for a month and 9 days. Edible oil, pulses, sugar, chickpeas and dates will be available at subsidized prices this time.

The organization gave this information in a press release yesterday (February 09).

TCB said that this activity will be conducted at several places in Dhaka metropolis and Chittagong from Monday. Any consumer can buy products from trucks by standing in line. Apart from this, sales activities through mobile trucks will start soon in other divisional cities and certain districts. This activity was stopped after December 31. After that, this activity started again after a short break.

TCB also said that the activity of selling TCB products (edible oil and pulses) at subsidized prices is going on among low-income families holding smart cards. In addition, goods will be sold at subsidized prices through trucks to ordinary consumers who do not have cards. Buyers will be able to buy oil, pulses, sugar, chickpeas and dates from the trucks.

A consumer can buy a maximum of two liters of edible oil (soybean or safflower oil), two kilograms of lentils, one kilogram of sugar, two kilograms of chickpeas and 500 grams of dates. The price of edible oil is 100 taka. In addition, lentils will be sold at 60 taka per kilogram, sugar at 70 taka, chickpeas at 60 taka and half a kilogram of dates at 155 taka. Chickpeas and dates will be sold on the occasion of the month of Ramadan.

TCB started selling goods through trucks from October 24 in 50 places in Dhaka and 20 in Chittagong due to the abnormal increase in the prices of daily necessities in the market.

TCB Regional Officer in Chittagong Shafiqul Islam told The Daily Morning Glory, “Today we are delivering goods to 200 consumers in each truck from ward number 1 to 20 in Chittagong city, tomorrow we will deliver goods to wards number 20 to 40 of the city. I want to give a message through you, “The demand is very high, but it is not possible to provide more than 200 people in each truck, so if there are more than 200 people, please leave on your own responsibility, because if you do not get the goods after standing in the sun all day, you will be disappointed.”