Commerce State Minister Ahsanul Islam Titus aid that 50,000 tons of onions are coming from India this week. Besides, from Sunday (March 3), bottled soybean oil will be sold at 163 takas per liter at the retail level,
he said The state minister for commerce said these things after an event organized by the ‘Association of Grassroots Women Entrepreneurs Bangladesh’ at the International Conference Center on Saturday (March 2). The state minister said that the monitoring of edible oil has started from Friday (March 1).
Teams are monitoring all the mill gates since Saturday morning. They have already been lettered about how much goods they have imported after the tariff reduction and how much time they have used to build buffer stocks. I think bottled soybean oil will be sold at Rs 163 per liter at the retail level from tomorrow.
Open soybean oil will be sold at TK 149 per liter. He said, India’s commerce minister has assured us of onion exemption in the bilateral meeting. At the same time, he ordered onion exemption sitting there, we received that letter yesterday. 50,000 tonnes of onion will start arriving from the country within this week.
Assault Islam said that an initiative has been taken to reduce the price of certain types of dates in the market. He said, there are at least 10 types of dates in the market. Among these, an initiative has been taken to reduce the price of ‘Saudi Dates’, which come in sacks to the common people.
The retail and wholesale price of Saudi dates will be officially determined tomorrow Sunday. The state minister said, we will solve the problems of the traders, but we will not listen to any excuses. There is no late discount on any daily necessities during Ramadan except for a valid reason.
Our target is not only Ramadan, but even after the month of Ramadan, the daily market will remain normal. Prime Minister’s directives that common people will not be held hostage by any businessman or group. One crore people of TCB will get some daily commodities including oil and sugar at subsidized prices
