Gas crisis hits some city areas
Monday, 28 December 2009
FE Report
City dwellers are now feeling the pinch of acute gas crisis with the advent of winter due to low gas pressure and inadequate supply.
Residents of different areas including Mirpur, Moghbazar, Cantonment, Jatrabari, Mohammadpur, Lalbagh, Dhania are worst affected, said sources.
In some areas gas crisis is so severe that the residents get gas supplies with limited pressure for six to seven hours mostly at dead of night when it is bedtime.
"We are now getting low-pressured gas in the morning until 8 am and at night after 11 pm," said Shamsul Arefin a resident of South Sheikhdi at Dania.
It is ridiculous that we are paying money but not getting enough gas supply, he said.
The government raised gas prices by around 11 per cent in August this year with a commitment to provide better services.
Some people of these areas are running after kerosene-stoves or wooden-ovens for cooking.
When contacted Titas's managing director Abdul Aziz Khan said: "Low gas pressure in winter has long been a common problem in some of the areas in the capital."
This is because one liquid component in natural gas freezes when the temperature falls in winter, he told the FE.
The problem arises mainly where the gas pipelines are narrow and crisscrosses in an unplanned way, said the to official of Titas, which is responsible for gas supply in and around the capital.
"We will initiate some measures to develop the gas supply situation soon," the Titas top brass assured.
City dwellers are now feeling the pinch of acute gas crisis with the advent of winter due to low gas pressure and inadequate supply.
Residents of different areas including Mirpur, Moghbazar, Cantonment, Jatrabari, Mohammadpur, Lalbagh, Dhania are worst affected, said sources.
In some areas gas crisis is so severe that the residents get gas supplies with limited pressure for six to seven hours mostly at dead of night when it is bedtime.
"We are now getting low-pressured gas in the morning until 8 am and at night after 11 pm," said Shamsul Arefin a resident of South Sheikhdi at Dania.
It is ridiculous that we are paying money but not getting enough gas supply, he said.
The government raised gas prices by around 11 per cent in August this year with a commitment to provide better services.
Some people of these areas are running after kerosene-stoves or wooden-ovens for cooking.
When contacted Titas's managing director Abdul Aziz Khan said: "Low gas pressure in winter has long been a common problem in some of the areas in the capital."
This is because one liquid component in natural gas freezes when the temperature falls in winter, he told the FE.
The problem arises mainly where the gas pipelines are narrow and crisscrosses in an unplanned way, said the to official of Titas, which is responsible for gas supply in and around the capital.
"We will initiate some measures to develop the gas supply situation soon," the Titas top brass assured.