Anisul Islam Noor :
The city dwellers’ sufferings intensify with acute gas crisis in houses in the recent days from evening to midnight. If it continues, the sufferings of the people keeping fast will know no bounds.
The residents of different areas of Dhaka city complain to the news paper offices saying that cooking after evening has become quite impossible due to low gas pressure during the time.
Though the State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said on Monday that the government was working earnestly for adequate gas and electricity supply in the coming days. But we need time, he said.
The officials of gas distribution entities told this correspondent, short supply of gas of about 600 MMCF daily exists now at evening. As the government is determined to ensure higher electricity generation in the month of Ramzan, flow of gas to the residential quarters has fallen.
Tahmina Afroze is a school teacher and lives at Ulan in the capital’s West Rampura. She does not start her cooking till 8:30pm. She said, “I do not know what shall I do during Iftar and Sehri?.
“If I get up after 2:00am, I shall not be able to finish cooking before Sehri. The gas supply falls after 9am so much so that sometimes I cannot even turn the stove on,” she says.
The residents of different areas, including Rampura, Banasri, Gopibag, Mirpur, Pallabi, Shukrabad, Indira Road, Gandaria, Jatrabari, Mirhajirbagh, West Rampura, Rajabazar, Moghbazar, Tejkunipara, Baridhara and Bashundhara Residential Area, Kazipara, Kalabagan North Circular Road, Uttara and Jatrabari, have been suffering from acute gas crisis.
While many of the sufferers, who can afford, buy gas cylinders, kerosene stoves, electric rice-cookers and induction cook tops to avoid uncertainty. And the rest have either to wait for hours for the gas supply or use earthen stoves, said, Abur Rahman, a resident of Gandaria.
A Titas official said, “Titas is getting about 1600mmcfd gas against the current daily demand for about 2100mmcfd, leaving a shortfall of 500mmcfd.”
But Titas’s Director (operations) Engineer Ali Ashraf said, residents of some areas may face gas crisis as a large number of gas burners begin cocking all together. Itt will be overcome within few days, he hoped.
However, he also admitted to certain minor technical glitches, which would be overcome by a week.
There is already a demand-supply gap in the country. The total gas production currently stands at 2,700 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) against the demand for 3350mmcfd.
But this has nothing to do with the existing crisis in Dhaka city, claim the authorities of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd, which is responsible for supplying gas to the capital.
The city dwellers’ sufferings intensify with acute gas crisis in houses in the recent days from evening to midnight. If it continues, the sufferings of the people keeping fast will know no bounds.
The residents of different areas of Dhaka city complain to the news paper offices saying that cooking after evening has become quite impossible due to low gas pressure during the time.
Though the State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said on Monday that the government was working earnestly for adequate gas and electricity supply in the coming days. But we need time, he said.
The officials of gas distribution entities told this correspondent, short supply of gas of about 600 MMCF daily exists now at evening. As the government is determined to ensure higher electricity generation in the month of Ramzan, flow of gas to the residential quarters has fallen.
Tahmina Afroze is a school teacher and lives at Ulan in the capital’s West Rampura. She does not start her cooking till 8:30pm. She said, “I do not know what shall I do during Iftar and Sehri?.
“If I get up after 2:00am, I shall not be able to finish cooking before Sehri. The gas supply falls after 9am so much so that sometimes I cannot even turn the stove on,” she says.
The residents of different areas, including Rampura, Banasri, Gopibag, Mirpur, Pallabi, Shukrabad, Indira Road, Gandaria, Jatrabari, Mirhajirbagh, West Rampura, Rajabazar, Moghbazar, Tejkunipara, Baridhara and Bashundhara Residential Area, Kazipara, Kalabagan North Circular Road, Uttara and Jatrabari, have been suffering from acute gas crisis.
While many of the sufferers, who can afford, buy gas cylinders, kerosene stoves, electric rice-cookers and induction cook tops to avoid uncertainty. And the rest have either to wait for hours for the gas supply or use earthen stoves, said, Abur Rahman, a resident of Gandaria.
A Titas official said, “Titas is getting about 1600mmcfd gas against the current daily demand for about 2100mmcfd, leaving a shortfall of 500mmcfd.”
But Titas’s Director (operations) Engineer Ali Ashraf said, residents of some areas may face gas crisis as a large number of gas burners begin cocking all together. Itt will be overcome within few days, he hoped.
However, he also admitted to certain minor technical glitches, which would be overcome by a week.
There is already a demand-supply gap in the country. The total gas production currently stands at 2,700 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) against the demand for 3350mmcfd.
But this has nothing to do with the existing crisis in Dhaka city, claim the authorities of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd, which is responsible for supplying gas to the capital.
