Cylinder, Pipeline Gas
JS body suggests reducing price gap
The parliamentary standing committee on power, energy and mineral resources ministry yesterday recommended reducing the huge price gap between cylinder gas and pipeline gas.
“It's totally illogical that the price of cylinder gas is much higher than that of pipeline gas. This is also discriminatory against the users of cylinder gas,” Maj Gen (retd) Shubid Ali Bhuiyan, chief of the committee, told The Daily Star after its meeting at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
The price of a gas-filled cylinder is over TK 1,600, while monthly cost for consumption of gas supplied through pipelines for a single household stands at around Tk 400, he said. "It is totally discriminatory and illogical."
Shubid Ali, also an Awami League lawmaker, said the committee asked the ministry to find some mechanism to bring a balance between the prices of pipeline gas and cylinder gas.
The committee did not give any direction to the ministry whether to increase the price of pipeline gas or to decrease the price of cylinder gas, he said.
“We have asked the officials concerned to sit with experts and stakeholders to find out how to bring the balance between the two prices.”
The parliamentary watchdog also recommended that the government goes for open-pit mining method whenever it takes the decision to extract coal.
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