Dhaka, January 7, 2007: The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) started Wednesday selling of vegetables in the city to bring down their prices that rose in the wake of monsoon.

BDR sources said members of the BDR are selling vegetable items in the city in some designated markets to rein in their prices.

Talking to news reporters, a senior BDR official said they have started selling vegetables in Dhaka and, if necessary, they will open the outlets also in other cities like Chittagong.

Such marketing operation will continue until the prices of vegetables come down to normal level, the BDR sources said.

On the first day of the operation the BDR personnel sold vegetable items at 10 market places in the city at fair prices, they said.

The BDR sources said they are bringing the vegetables from the countryside where they get the items in plenty at reasonable prices.

"We can sell the vegetable items at lower prices to the consumers as we can buy them at reasonable prices directly from the growers," said a highly placed official of the BDR Wednesday.

He said on the first day Wednesday they sold more than 10 items like brinjal, okra, bitter gourd, red amaranth, Kakrol, pumpkin, lemon, cucumber and green chilli in the designated city outlets.

Talking to the FE, Lt Colonel Asif of the BDR said they sold Kakrol at Tk 13 per kg, a medium size pumpkin at Tk 12, borboti  at Tk 21 per kg, Dhundol at Tk 13 per kg, bitter gourd at Tk 25 per kg, one lemon at Tk 1.0 and Cucumber at Tk 12 per kg Wednesday.

"We are hopeful that there will have a positive impact soon on the prices of essential commodities due to such operation in the local markets," Asif told.

Currently, the BDR is in campaign of "Operation Dal-Bhat" across the country to bring down the prices of essential commodities.
 

@ The Bangladesh Journal

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