Staff Reporter
Making a strong plea for raising prices of oil and gas Chief Advisor’s Special Assistant for Power and Energy Ministry Prof. M Tamim yesterday said government subsidy on power and energy would come to some Tk 18,000 crore in the coming fiscal year under the newly announced budget.
He said Tk 16,000 crore of this amount would go to petroleum while Tk 1,000 crore to power and another Tk 1,000 to gas sector, he said and termed it as a drain on the state exchequer. [Read more]
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