All Bangla desk
Dhaka: Bangladesh Jewelers Association (BAJUS) has announced to reduce the price of gold again in just one day. In this regard, the organization revised the price of gold five times in the last one week. In the latest revision, the price of gold has decreased by 2 thousand 99 taka. As a result, now it will take 1 lakh 14 thousand 191 taka to buy a load of 22 carat gold.
Bajus made the announcement in a press release on Wednesday (April 24). The announcement came through a circular signed by Masudur Rahman, Chairman of the Bajus Price Determination and Price Monitoring Standing Committee. This new price of gold will be effective from today.
Earlier, on April 18, the price of gold rose to a record of Tk 1 lakh 19 thousand 638. From there on April 20, the price decreased to 1 lakh 18 thousand 780 taka. And on April 21, the price of gold increased by 648 taka to 1 lakh 19 thousand 428 taka. And on April 23, the price of gold decreased to 1 lakh 16 thousand 290 taka.
According to Bajus notification, the price of pure gold has decreased in the local market. Therefore, taking into account the overall situation, the new price of gold has been fixed in the meeting of the standing committee for price determination and price monitoring of bajus.
According to the new announcement of Bajus, from April 24, it will cost 1 lakh 14 thousand 191 taka to buy good quality 22 carat gold (11.664 grams). Apart from this, the price of 21 carat gold has been fixed at Tk 1 lakh 9 thousand. 18 carat Pratibhari will cost 93 thousand 429 taka and traditional method pratibhari has been priced at 75 thousand 209 taka.
However, Bajus did not make any announcement to increase or decrease the price of silver on this day. According to the previous announcement, the price of 22 carat silver is 2 thousand 100 taka, 21 carat silver is 2 thousand 6 taka, 18 carat silver is 1 thousand 715 taka and traditional silver is 1 thousand 283 taka.
It may be noted that Bangladesh Jewelers Association re-fixed the price of gold on April 23.
Sarabangla/PTM
