Mid-income group to get TCB commodities through permanent shops

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State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Sunday said that efforts are on to sell products of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) among the common people through setting up permanent shops in the next fiscal year.

Besides, he said plan is also there to sell TCB products among the mid-income group people at affordable prices in future.

The state minister said, “From the next fiscal year (FY25), we want to sell products through permanent shops so that the beneficiaries can take away products timely. We’ll 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.”

He said this while inaugurating the sale operations of TCB products for the month of June at Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Play Ground in the capital’s Mirpur, BSS reported.

Titu said when one crore families get such essential items at subsidized rates, the demands of rice, sugar, lentil and edible oil are met to a significant extent.

Commerce Secretary Mohammad Selim Uddin, TCB chairman M Mostafa Kamal Iqbal, among others, were present on the occasion.

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