C T Online Desk: Chittagong City Corporation Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury has said that unscrupulous traders should stop trying to increase the prices of their products by investing in Ramadan. Ramadan is a month of restraint, everyone should show restraint. The government has taken all possible steps to keep the supply and price of all products normal. Hopefully people will get the benefits. However, he urged the city dwellers to refrain from buying extra products at the same time.
He was speaking at the inauguration of TCB’s sale of daily necessities to low-income people at a subsidized price at a community center in the customs ward on Sunday.
He said the products would be distributed among three lakh families in 41 wards of Chittagong City Corporation. In the meantime, special family cards have been issued to the beneficiary families by making a list of beneficiaries to facilitate the sale of TCB products in an orderly manner. The first installment will be sold till March 20-30 and the second installment will be sold till April 3-20. Customs Ward Councilor Morshed Alam spoke as a special guest in the presidency of the CCC CEO. Shahidul Alam, Chittagong Deputy Commissioner Mominur Rahman.
Among others, reserved councilor Jasmine Parveen Jesse, private secretary to the Mayor Muhammad Abul Hashem, president of Mahanagar Swechchhasebak League Debashish Nath Debu, president of ward Awami League Atiqur Rahman, general secretary Sheikh Sarwardi, joint general secretary of organizing ward 43 Awami League MA Taher were present.
