Petrobangla invites CNG pump owners to discuss demands

The state-owned Petrobangla will sit with CNG station owners on Sunday to discuss their demands and persuade them to withdraw an indefinite strike threatened from June 8. “We will join the meeting,” Zakir Hossain Nayon, president of Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association, said on Saturday. “But we want our demands to be accepted.” He said Petrobangla Chairman Hussain Monsur invited the owners to the meeting. The demands include raising CNG (compressed natural gas) price when power tariff is raised, enhancing station owners’ commission margin to Tk 2.98 from Tk 0.12 on the sale of per cubic meter of CNG, issuing 15 days’ gas bill instead of monthly bill by gas companies, putting forward the issue of new gas connection to 54 CNG pumps to the high-level committee, and taking measures to install EVC meters at CNG stations, according to UNB.