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Gas prices likely to hike

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Published: 15:28, 28 April 2016   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Gas prices likely to hike

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Secretariat Correspondent: Acting secretary for the energy and mineral resources division Nazim Uddin Chowdhury today hinted that the price of gas for household use and for vehicles might increase soon.  

He said, "We want to discourage people about these two types of gas usage. That’s why the authority decided to increase the price of gas."

The Minister made the comment while addressing a meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday.

Around 20 per cent of gas is used for household and transport through which the government gets only Tk 1,030 crore.

The government could have earned about Tk 80,000 crore if that gas is used in the field of industry, said Nazim Uddin Chowdhury.

Monthly prices of gas supplied to single-burner stoves increased to Tk 600 from Tk 400 and for double-burners Tk 650 from Tk 450, while per unit of compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles hiked to Tk 35 from Tk 30 on 1 September, 2015.

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