Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament instructed businessmen that the federal government may give them uninterrupted gasoline provide in the event that they agreed to pay the speed at which the federal government purchased gasoline from worldwide market.
“If they need uninterrupted gasoline provide, they must pay the identical value that the federal government pays to acquire gasoline. There isn’t any purpose to supply subsidy right here,” she mentioned.
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The PM made the assertion whereas replying to a remarks of fundamental opposition MP Mujibul Haque Chunnu within the Home.
Hasina, additionally chief of the Home, mentioned Bangladesh is taking the mortgage from the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) with no important circumstances.
“IMF provides a mortgage to any nation solely when it has capability to repay it,” he mentioned.
Earlier, taking the ground on some extent of order, Chunnu mentioned Bangladesh is now assembly some circumstances to get loans from IMF and has already raised electrical energy value and would improve gasoline value for the mortgage, which can result in hovering costs of commodities and inflation.
Hasina mentioned the federal government is giving subsidy on energy and gasoline. “My query is that which nation of the world offers subsidy on electrical energy and gasoline. No nation provides subsidy on them. We have elevated the electrical energy era and ensured electrical energy provide. However all should train austerity in utilizing electrical energy.”
She mentioned the electrical energy value was raised by 150 % in England following the Ukraine-Russia conflict. “We have hiked the worth of electrical energy by solely 5 % and the worth of bulk gasoline to some extent now.”
The PM mentioned the spot value of LNG is now $68 within the worldwide market, which was earlier solely $6. “If that’s the case, how a lot subsidy will the federal government present? The federal government provides the subsidy from the general public cash,” she mentioned.
She mentioned the commodity costs have soared all through the world. In Bangladesh, the federal government supplied truthful value and TCB playing cards to the decrease and middle-income folks in order that they will purchase some important commodities, together with rice, at subsidised charges, she added.
Hasina mentioned, “We’re offering enormous subsidy on agriculture. Now if we have to present Tk 40,000-60,000 crore on era and distribution of electrical energy and gasoline and provide then how will we offer this?”
She mentioned the inflation got here down barely in December and January within the nation. The meals inflation is 13.3 % in a rustic like England. The identical state of affairs prevails in all different nations of the world. However Bangladesh has not fallen into such state of affairs but, she added.
The PM mentioned the usage of electrical energy was decreased by 50 % on the Prime Minister’s Workplace and Gono Bhaban. If all takes such measures, they will present austerity in the usage of electrical energy, she mentioned.
FOOD CRISIS
In reply to a query from Jatiya Celebration MP Syed Abu Hossain, Hasina mentioned the danger of meals disaster has stemmed from the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict.
She added that the pandemic and conflict have put impacts on the worldwide economic system and Bangladesh is not any exception.
Hasina mentioned her authorities has taken varied measures in order that meals scarcity wouldn’t happen within the nation.
The measures embody rising agriculture manufacturing by brining all fallow land underneath cultivation and development of contemporary meals reservoirs.
MEGA PROJECTS
Responding to a different query from Awami League lawmaker Abdul Latif, Hasina positioned the statistics over the progress of 10 mega tasks.
Of the tasks, Padma Bridge and part of metro rail have already been accomplished, whereas Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel underneath the Karnaphuli river is awaiting inauguration.