43 lakh cards of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh-TCB have been canceled due to irregularities. While converting the handwritten cards into smart family cards, these cards are left out during NID verification. However, it was not possible to convert all cards into smart cards due to various complications. So TCB products still have to be distributed on the old handwritten cards.
TCB spokesperson Humayun Kabir gave this information in a press conference organized at the regional office of TCB in Tenjgaon on Saturday (November 9).
Humayun Kabir said, when one crore handwritten cards were integrated with NID, it was seen that he had taken a card once in Dhaka with the same NID, and he may have made another card at his village home. As a result, when we went to verify with NID, 4.3 lakh cards were left out.
He said that more than one person in the same family is getting products out of one crore family cards. Due to the absence of local administration or public representatives, it is not possible to properly monitor whether the products are reaching the consumer level properly.
Humayun Kabir said, 'In order to eliminate these problems of family card, so that a family does not get more than one card, we have taken the initiative to make smart family card. So far 57 lakh smart family cards have been issued. We have written four letters to the district administration and the city corporation to do the rest of the cards. Due to the recent reshuffle in the district administration, we have not been able to identify the rest of the cards due to not receiving this information from them.'
He said that 5 products of TCB – oil, sugar, gram, dates, pulses will be sold in Ramadan. And 4 products except dates will be sold outside the city corporation. More than 24,000 people will be able to buy products outside of the card at a total of 70 points in Dhaka and outside Dhaka by truck. Each truck is serving 350 people.
