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The government has decided to sell onion at Tk 50 per kg, potato at Tk 30 per kg, lentils at Tk 60 per kg, and soybean oil at Tk 100 per litre in Dhaka north and south city corporations from tomorrow (14 November) via the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).
Each of the customers will be able to buy 2kg onion, 2kg potato, 2-litre soybean oil and 2kg lentils every day," Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh said at a briefing in the Secretariat on Monday (13 November).
He said 9000 customers will get these four products at a subsidised rate every day.
Earlier on 8 November, the government approved proposals to purchase 1.1 crore litres of refined soybean oil and 25,000 tonnes of lentils for distribution to one crore poor families of the country through TCB.
Messenger/Disha
