The state-run agency Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has announced to sell essential items at a subsidized rate to some one crore low-income group families ahead of holy Ramadan.

A card holder will be able to buy one kg sugar at Tk 60 per kg, two kg lentils at Tk 70 per kg, two litres of soybean oil at Tk 110 per litre and one kg chickpea Tk 50 per kg, and dates at Tk 100 a kg, according to a press release.

Dates will be sold only inside Dhaka city, the TCB statement also mentioned.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi will formally inaugurate the programme
In December last year, the TCB raised the prices of sugar and lentils by Tk 5 a kg for the last time, when the prices were increased from Tk 55 a kg to Tk 60 and from Tk 65 to Tk 70 respectively.