GAS SUPPLY TO RANGPUR: Pipeline installation work to start next month
Installation of pipeline to supply gas to Rangpur will start from January next year with an aim to explore the industrial sector in the region.
The around Tk 1,800 crore project is expected to be completed in June 2022.
During her visit in 2011, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged to ensure gas supply to the division through pipeline -- a long standing demand of residents.
Shailaja Nanda Basak, deputy general manager (planning) of Pashchimanchal (western) Gas Company Limited (PGCL), revealed the information at a meeting with industrialists of the region on Monday afternoon at the office of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI).
PGCL is a concern of state-run Petrobangla.
He said the work will start from Bogura then to Rangpur and surrounding areas of Pirganj and Nilphamari.
A supply network will also be built by Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) in consultation with Investment Facilitation Company (IFC).
Mostafa Hossain Ripan, acting president of RCCI, presided over the meeting. He said gas is the prerequisite for promoting industries.
In their speech, industrialists thanked the prime minister for the initiative and said many potential industrialists have purchased plots on both side of Dinajpur-Rangpur Highway in last couple of years to set up factories. But they could not do so for not having gas supply, they added.
They also urged the government to extend the pipeline up to the proposed economic zone in Mohipur (around 1,000 acres) of Gangachhara upazila of Dinajpur.
The deputy general manager said they are assessing the number of functional and potential industries, and the amount of gas needed in this regard.
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