TCB’s commodity sale to one crore people begins

State-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) started selling essential commodities today at subsidised rates to one crore family cardholders for September.

The month-long sales activities will be run through about 300 dealers in Dhaka and 3,500 across the country.

The family cardholders have to go to the designated distributors' store to purchase their desired products.

Senior Commerce Secretary Tapon Kanti Ghosh launched the sales for September in Tejgaon's Begunbari area in the capital.

He said around 5 crore people in the country are getting benefit of the programme.

The products will be distributed every month, Ghosh said.

The TCB will sell onion at some places this month, the corporation said in a statement.