Govt to continue OMS activities in lockdown

The government will continue selling rice and flour in open market sales (OMS) at a fair price in the lockdown in a bid to meet the basic food needs of low-income people.

Sumon Mehedi, senior information officer of the food ministry, told risingbd on Thursday (April 15).

He said the activities would continue six days a week except for Fridays and public holidays.

733 metric tonnes of rice and 796 metric tonnes of flour will be sold in 715 outlets (including 10 mobile trucks) through 715 OMS dealers in the divisional and district-level cities of the country.

In Dhaka metropolis, 30 metric tons of rice is being sold daily through 10 trucks, and 124 metric tons of rice and 66 metric tons of flour are being sold through 126 outlets.

Besides, one metric ton of rice and two metric tonnes of flour per dealer will be sold daily in 151 outlets in labor-intensive Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Narsingdi districts and one metric ton of rice and one metric ton of flour per dealer in 311 outlets in other metropolitan and district cities.