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Poor gas supply hits homes, businesses

Staff Correspondent
The gas-run industries and household users and gas stations in the capital and adjacent districts have been facing acute shortage of gas for the last few days due to shortfall in production against the rising demands.
Meanwhile, against the back-drop of the crisis, the government has decided to increase the gas prices with effect from the current month.
The energy ministry has set the monthly tariff for a single burner gas oven at Tk 350 from its current price ofTk340 while for the double burner it is upped to Tk 400 from Tk 390. Domestic consumers who use meters have to pay Tk 130 for every 1000 cubic feet of gas. The earlier rate was Tk 126. For power generation the rate will be Tk 73.91 upped fromlk72.45.
Gas price for commercial use has been upped to Tk 233.12 from Tk 228.50. For the use of fertiliser industry the rate has been fixed atTk 63.41 while for industrial usc_atTk 148.13 from Tk 145.20 for per 1000 cubic feet of gas.
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The government yesterday issued a gazette notification in this regard. On Wednesday, prime minister approved the energy ministry’s proposal to raise the gas prices in about six months of the last hike.
Mirpur, Pallabi, Shyamoli, Badda, Demra, Jatrabari, Mohammadpur, Uttara, Tongi, Cantonment area, Gulshan, Baridhara, Maniknagar, Gopibag, Kalabagan, Dhanmondi and Tejgaon are worst affected in the ongoing gas crisis. Many residents of these areas said that they could not cook meals as gas burners get a low-pressuresupply.
There were long queues of vehicles at the CNG stations across the city yesterday and most had to wait forseveral hours.
Gas supplied at low pressure has been affectingregular production as well in the gas-run industries of Tongi, Tejgaon andSavarEPZ areas.
"We experience the problem of low pressure usually during the winter when the demand for gas increases," said Murtasir Ali, director- planningof the Petrobangla.
"We are now working to install a new gas pipeline in the city and hoping that the problem would be solved within a month," he said adding, "Another pipeline will come into operation from next June."
A Petrobangla source said the country is facing a shortfall of about 1000 million cubic fee t gas every day.