Adjust fuel oil prices with int'l market
BNP yesterday demanded that the government reduce power tariffs after adjusting fuel oil prices with the international market, where prices marked a sharp fall, and accordingly revise the deals with private electricity companies.
"When the government and the quick rental power companies signed the agreements, the prices of oil on the international market were higher than now. So it should revise the deals and re-fix the prices of power," BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon told a press conference at Nayapaltan office.
Oil prices on the international market have been halved to about $60 per barrel in the last one year, but the government has not adjusted the prices locally.
“There should be more transparency and accountability in the deals,” said Ripon.
The party came up with the demands just a day before the parliament is set to pass the 2015-16 budget today.
Ripon also demanded the withdrawal of the 10 percent value added tax (VAT) proposed to be imposed on private universities and medical, engineering colleges.
He urged the government to increase the salaries of judges, teachers, and traffic police.
The BNP foreign affairs secretary accused the government of destroying the economy with wrong policies. “The ruling party men plundered most of the state-owned banks.”
He also said thousands of crores of taka was siphoned off abroad in the last few years. “But, none was brought to justice for the laundering.”
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