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TCB to cater to 1 crore low-income families from tomorrow

GreenWatch Desk Food 2023-01-09, 11:55pm

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State-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling essential items at fair prices for one crore low-income families across the country from tomorrow (January 10, 2023).

"Some 10 million families across the country, with cards, will be able to buy the essential items," said a press release signed by Md Humayun Kabir, information officer of the Dhaka Regional office, reports UNB.

Each cardholder can buy 1 kg of sugar at Tk 60, 2 kg of lentils at Tk 70 per kg and two litres of soybean oil at Tk 110 per litre.

Eligible people have to buy the items from the shops of distributors or at designated places, it added.