Customers of Dhaka are being cheated by purchasing imported onion from the TCB trucks. They alleged, most the onions are rotten. As a result, the customers have lost their interest to purchase TCB imported onions even at a discounted price.
It is alleged, TCB was trying the sell the onion to the customers in various ways. On the other hand, the heap of onion has been kept stored at the Chittagong port. No one can predict the future of those huge stacks of onion. TCB authorities, however, advising their dealer, if customers do not purchase the onion, they should throw those away.
Customers at the TCB outlets informed, they could purchase onion or other things from any shop by judging the quality of the goods but in a TCB truck, onions are kept packed the polythene bags and the customers have no chance to sort or separate the good ones from the rotten ones. They complained, about a half of the onion kept in the polythene bags are unfit for consumption. The onion is also taste and flavourless- like grasses or leaves, they added.
Mursalin, a customer wanted to purchase two kilogrammes of onion from the TCB truck in front of Press Club, but, he was informed onion less than five kilogramme is not sold to a customer from there. ' The price of TCB onion is cheap. Five kgs of onion are only at Taka 100. That is why no onion less than five kgs are sold to any customer,' said the TCB dealer at the outlet.
Mohammad Mazed, General Secretary of Shyam Bazar Onion Traders Association informed many onion traders incurred a huge loss by purchasing imported onion. Now the imported onion is being sold at Taka 10 to 12 per kilogramme. A huge stack of onion purchased earlier are being perished, he added
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