Dhaka, May 11 -- The government is undertaking a series of measures to ensure transparency, accountability and effective oversight in the country's essential commodities market, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir said Monday.

The government has initiated strategic reserve building, AI-powered supply chain monitoring and enhanced TCB capacity to prevent any form of syndication or market manipulation in the daily commodities sector, said the minister at the inauguration of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh's (TCB) truck sale programme ahead of Eid-ul-Azha at Agargaon in the captial.

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