The government is going to appoint a company at a cost of Tk 17.5 crore to give smart cards to one crore poor families so that they can buy various essential commodities at subsidised rates from the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).
The much-awaited project to buy tourist coaches taken up four years ago for under construction Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar rail route is still in limbo, as the project is stuck in a row over a feasibility study.