Refuelling stations warn strike over gas price hike
Refuelling stations’ owners have threatened to go on strike if the government increases the prices of compressed natural gas (CNG) – widely used as transport fuel.
“We will try to convince authorities concerned to convince against the hike,” said Masud Khan, president of Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association.
“If they don’t heed our words we will be compeled to shut down our stations," he said while addressing a discussion in Dhaka’s Cirdap auditorium organised by the association today.
In the last gas price hike placed on September 2015, Bangladesh government increased prices of CNG from Tk 30 to Tk 35 per cubic metre.
Now, as the refuelling stations’ allege, the gas distributor companies have again proposed the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) to increase CNG price by around 83 percent.
The filling stations’ owners fear that a further hike will bring about adverse effects.
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