Crowd in Bagerhat to buy TCB products during lockdown
Despite the "strict lockdown" to curb the coronavirus pandemic, people in Bagerhat have crowded to buy essential products of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).
Unemployed and low-income people were seen gathered in front of a truck of TCB at Bagerhat District Awami League office in the town around noon today, our Bagerhat correspondent reports.
TCB has been selling soybean oil at Tk 100 per litre, lentils and sugar at Tk 55 per kilogramme. One can buy up to two litres of oil, two kg of lentils and sugar.
Nazir, a van-puller who came to buy TCB's products, said he bought the items at a price lower than the market price. If there is a supply of TCB products throughout the year, the poor like him will benefit, he added.
Russell Sheikh, a TCB dealer, said, "We take the goods from Khulna to Bagerhat and sell them to the common people. However, due to the lockdown, the number of people has been increasing day by day. If we increase the supply, we will be able to meet the demand of the customers."
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