Bangladesh: Government to import 11 million litres of soybean oil and 8,000 metric tons of lentil

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), the state marketing agency, will import 11 million litres of soybean oil and 8,000 metric tons (MT) of lentil from private suppliers to sell hose through open market sale program (OMS). Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCPG) approved two separate proposals in this regard in a virtual meeting of the committee, presided over by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. According to the proposals, placed by the commerce ministry on behalf of its subordinate body, the TCB will import 11 million litres of soybean oil at a cost of Tk200.20 crore with per litre at Tk182 while 8,000MT of lentil will be procured from ETC Agro Processing Pvt Ltd, India (Local Agent: Export Trading BD Ltd, Dhaka at a cost of Tk73.96 crore. The committee also approved three more proposals of different ministries. A proposal of the Roads and Highways Department received the nod of the committee to award a contract for construction of Lot No. DS-3 of the WP-02 Package ...