KGDCL snaps about 400 illegal gas connections

CHITTAGONG, Dec 27: The Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Co Ltd (KGDCL) has snapped illegal gas connection of about 400 burners as it continued its drive across the district.

The drive against rampant illegal gas connections from internal gas lines comes as the authority faces severe shortage of gas supply to industrial, commercial, domestic and gas filling stations in Chittagong, a regular phenomenon over the last several years.

In a drive conducted at Yunusia Madrasa area in Urkirchar village under Raozan upazila of the district the team of the KGDCL snapped illegal connections of 37 burners, including 26 at a three-storey building owned by one Md Shafi.

A statement of the KGDCL said Shafi took the gas connection to his house and other adjoining houses by using a plastic pipe some 300 feet from the KGDCL internal line and had been using the gas illegally for a long time. He took the illegal gas lines to other houses 550 feet away from the internal line.

The KGDCL team headed by Engineer Abdul Halim, manager (vigilance), also snapped the commercial and domestic gas connections of 361 burners of 66 households in the city's Bayezid Bostami, Meah Khan Nagar, Chandgaon, Mohra, Akbar Shah, West Bakolia, South Madarsha and Hathazari areas.

The KGDCL authority said regular cases under Gas Law 2010 would be lodged against them to realise the government dues. Engineer Md Alamgir Hossain, Engineer Palash Sarkar and the concerned officials of the company were present during the drive against illegal connections.

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