Dhaka, Oct 6 (BDNEWS) - Ansar-VDP will start selling the products of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) from Saturday.
An official of the TCB said that due to the shortage of the officials and employees, the Ansar-VDP would take the responsibility of selling TCB products at different spots of the country.
The authorities concerned is going to take initiative to increase number of the selling spots, the official said adding that the Corporation's products would be sold from 70 spots including 37 new ones in the four divisional cities including Dhaka.
In this regard, the TCB Board Thursday held a discussion that was told that the imported items would be sold out in next 10 days.
The ministry also has planned to supply more commodities through the Corporation, sources said adding that a decision, in this regard, would be taken on Saturday.
Meanwhile, there was an allegation of cheating in weight in their sales programmes.
The consumers at different spots claimed that they were given 100 gm less in one kilogram and low quality grams.
Though the TCB officials denied the allegation the Corporation suspended on the spot an employee for giving a customer less in weight.
The authorities introduced the open market sale (OMS) through mobile trucks from 40 centres from Wednesday. Of those, 33 centres are in Dhaka, four in Chittagong, one in Khulna and two in Rajshahi.
BDNEWS/2020 hrs
