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New electricity rate effective from Mar 1

By Staff Correspondent
The government has no plan to increase the rate of electricity "for the time being." Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Nooruddin Khan told the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday.
The minister however said that five per cent increase hasalready been made with effect from March 1 and consumers have to pay the enhanced rate from that month.
He was replying to a written question from BNP MP Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman.
The country suffered a total of 1972 hours' loadshedding during 10 months from June last year to March this year. Nooruddin said responding to another question.
Answering another question. he Informed the House that 581 megawatt more power was produced between 1991 to 1995 through installation of four new power plants. But during the same period. 10 power plants with a generation capacity of 405 MW were shut down, he added.
Nooruddin also said PDB has now Tk 1282.727 crore outstanding with consumers, DESA Tk 715.71 crore and REB Tk 46 crore.
BSS adds: Nooruddin told the House that the government had no plan to Import power
from India "right now."
But the government is considering the aspects of peak hour availability, acceptability from the tariff and technical points of view and availability of power in the shortest possible time on the question of importing power from India, he said in reply to a question by BNP member Mohammad Fa-zlul Azim.
Gas crisis
Nooruddin Khan informed the House that the government had taken both short and long term measures to solve the problems of gas distribution in the city.
Replying to a question from Alhaj Makbul Hossain (AL-Dhaka). he said the gas distribution system is facing problems as the existing network was installed on the basis of demands in the '70s which has increased manifold with increased population in the city.
"As a snort-term measure, link line would be installed in different parts of the city to overcome the crisis," the minister said, adding that different measures have been taken under the "third natural gas development project." financed by. the Asian Development Bank (ADB). '
The measures include, installation of higher-pressure gas distribution line, reinstallation of lines, improving and reinstallation of city gate station. district regulating station and town border station, the minister added.