Open Market Sale (OMS), a government initiative to provide lower-income people with essential commodities at a reasonable price, has received good response on the first day. Replying to a query, Kabir said: “The OMS activity would continue till the last week of Ramadan. According to TCB, a consumer could buy highest 4 kgs of sugar (local), 3 kgs of lentil, 5 litres of soybean oil, 5 kgs of gram and 1 kg of date from the OMS truck. Dealers sold sugar, lentil, soybean oil and lentil on Monday while the sale of date would start from the eve of Ramadan. Each litre of soybean oil was sold at Tk85 while Tk55 was fixed for each kilogramme (kg) of sugar, Tk80 for lentil and Tk70 for gram.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 15, 2017 18:11 UTC