Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Labour and Employment of the Interim Government, said that the Government will take the initiative to create an agricultural market to deliver farmers' products directly to consumers and break syndicates.

He said this at the opening ceremony of the sale of TCB products at subsidized prices to common consumers in mobile trucks in Capital's Begunbari area on Thursday (October 24).

Asif Mahmud said that due to some other reasons including flood, the price of goods is increasing in the market. Due to manipulation with syndicates or hoarding of Retailers, the price of goods in the market increases, and public suffering increases. The government will take a strict stand against it.

He said that the work is going on to reach the products from the farmer to the consumer level. The government will help those who do it. Apart from this, alternative agricultural markets are also being considered. So that the farmer can sell the product directly.

The advisor also said that private entrepreneurs should come forward to further spread the activities that have been started to deliver products from farmers to consumer level privately. It will help to break the syndicate. The government will work to solve this problem in the long term.

Incidentally, in addition to family card holders, consumers can now stand in line in front of the truck at designated points of TCB and buy TCB's price products without the card. Arrangements have been made to sell oil, pulses, and rice supplied by TCB's Directorate of Food at subsidized prices through 50 trucks in Dhaka and 20 in Chattogram.

This program will start on 24th October and will continue till 30th November. However, if inflation does not reach a tolerable level, the activities may be extended later, according to TCB sources.

Beneficiaries can buy a maximum of 2 liters of edible oil, 2 kg of lentils, and 5 kg of rice under this program. In this case, they have to buy edible oil at Tk100 per liter, lentils at Tk60 per kg, and rice at Tk30 per kg.