Bangladesh Fears Industrial Cost from Gas Shortage

Bangladesh’s textile producers, major export earners, said on Monday that a government decision to limit gas use by industry would cause at least $18 million in lost production each month.

State-run Titas Gas and Transmission and Distribution Company (TGTDC) last week told all major industries to stop natural gas consumption for five hours a day at peak time to ease pressure on the power sector.
Textiles producers typically use the gas to generate their own power for production of cloth and garments because the public power supply is unreliable.

“We have been directed to cut gas used to generate electricity in our own plants to

40 percent, which means that we have to shut down our factories,” said Abdul Hai

Sarkar, president of the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association.

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