Keep CNG filling station open round-the-clock
Ctg autorickshaw drivers demand
Staff correspondent, Ctg
Over one thousand CNG autorickshaw drivers staged a demonstration in the city yesterday demanding round-the-clock operation of the lone CNG filling station at Dampara.The agitated drivers put up a barricade on the road with their vehicles for about two hours. The demonstrators also went on rampage and vandalised a few vehicles. The drivers said that the CNG station could not cope with the increasing demand, forcing the drivers to wait in long queue for about eight hours. Worse, the dispensing units went out of order frequently, causing suffering to them, they said. Run by the Chittagong City Corporation, the CNG (compressed natural gas) filling centre has a capacity to provide the fuel to one thousand vehicles a day. But over 1200 vehicles line in the queue for CNG daily. At present, over 3,500 CNG vehicles ply the city roads while 2,000 more are in the queue for conversion, sources said. Demand for both the CNG and conversion is increasing every day and it would be tough for a single station to cope with the demand unless more stations are installed immediately, they said.
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