Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official Eid-ul-Fitr greeting cards this year, like in the past, contain the drawings done by 11 children with special needs, the PM’s media wing said on Monday. The prime minister’s Bangla New Year’s greeting cards this year were also done with the drawings of 15 special-need children selected from all across the country, said PM’s Assistant Press Secretary MM Emrul Kayas. “The artistes of the selected drawings have been given Taka 100,000 each as complementary prize,” he said. READ: Expedite work on Sheikh Hasina Nakshipalli Jamalpur project: JS body Kayas said the prime minister started sending greeting cards drawn by differently abled children  during festivals like Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha, Bangla New Year (Pahela Boishakh) and English New Year since she assumed the office in 2009. The PM sent the greeting cards to the speaker, chief justice, cabinet members, members of parliament, political leaders, dignitaries, professionals, military and civil officers, heads of foreign diplomatic missions and organizations based in Dhaka and heads of foreign state or government, said Kayas.

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling essential items at fair prices for 1 crore low-income families on Sunday. The government has already prepared a list of 87 lakh card holders who will get 2 liters of edible oil, 2 kgs sugar and 2 kgs lentils. The TCB will arrange ‘truck sale’ across the country to sell edible oil at Tk 110 per kg,  sugar at Tk 55 per kg, lentil at Tk 65 per kg and onion at Tk 30 per kg In order to facilitate the sale of TCB's products in a systematic manner, a list of these families has been prepared and special family cards have been distributed. Also read: Crowds growing around TCB trucks, women lack the access Of these, 12 lakh families in Dhaka North and South City Corporation and 90 thousand families in Barisal City Corporation could not be issued the family cards. And  so, all of TCB's products will be sold to them through mobile trucks. The list has been prepared with the help of Deputy Commissioners, Upazila Nirbahi Officers and people's representatives at the union level considering the local population and poverty indicators. TCB Chairman Brigadier General Md. Ariful Hassan told UNB that in the first phase each beneficiary family will get 2 liters of edible oil, 2 Kgs sugar and 2 kgs lentils from March 20 to 31. Also read:TCB to start selling for 10 million families from Mar 20: Minister There are a lot of floating people in Dhaka city areas and special marking method will be applied to avoid duplication in providing the TCB products, he said.