'Outline Rajshahi gas supply plan'

Khaleda Zia while addressing a public meeting here on March 11 said gas would be supplied to Rajshahi.

"She made the promise following repeated slogans from the audience demanding gas. It is not clear when and how gas will come to Rajshahi", said a RPMC statement signed by 15 of its leaders including its convenor Zamat Khan, Advocate Muhammad Yahia, Mosharraf Akhunji, Prof Sarwar Jahan and Proshanta Saha.

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They demanded an immediate government declaration outlining plans for gas supply.

"The Prime Minister and a number of her cabinet members pledged many times before the last general election to supply gas to Rajshahi, but the reality is that gas is yet reach", the statement said.

There is no noticeable activity by the government to supply gas to Rajshahi while it is being supplied to Bogra avoiding the divisional city, the statement said.

The leaders also differed with a statement made at the Prime Minister's public meeting that Barind Development Project saved the Barind region from desertification.

"The project so far provided irrigation facility to only 26 percent of the land in the region and it is quickening desertification by maximum utilisation of underground water", it said.