The President of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industries Mahabub Alam made fervent call to the Energy & Power adviser of the Prime minister Toufique Elahi Chowdhury for the immediate solutions of the gas crisis and to increase the pressure of supplied gas during peak hours, said a press release of CCCI. The press release also said that there is an acute gas crisis in the Chittagong metropolitan area as well as the pressure of Gas is very low. Due to this small and medium scale industries are facing production debacle. The Chamber president cited in the letter that there is a demand of 500 to 550 million cft gas in Chittagong while the port city is getting only 228 million cft gas.
Against the backdrop of severe Gas crisis, the President wrote a letter to the Energy and Power adviser which said that due to this problem the export oriented RMG and Knit garments units and other industries are failing to meet production target and losing the export order and shipments. Since they are burdened with high interest from banks, liabilities are being occurred in case of payments to suppliers and employees. The crisis also affects gas consumption of households, hospital and clinics and CNG Gas stations.
