Ruma Akhter, an employee of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, could not believe her ears yesterday when a trader at the capital’s Karwan Bazar asked Tk 104 for a kilogram of onions.

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling Indian onion at Tk 40 per kilogramme (kg) in Dhaka, Gazipur and Chattogram cities from tomorrow.