Retail gasoline costs hiked for energy crops, industries and business customers with impact from Feb 1

The federal government has raised the retail gasoline costs for public, non-public and captive energy crops and likewise for industries and business customers with impact from February 1.

As per the brand new authorities announcement on Wednesday, the gasoline costs have been elevated by virtually 3 times for private and non-private energy crops whereas virtually double for captive energy crops and industries, and considerably hiked for business customers.

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Nonetheless, costs for family shoppers, CNG-run for motor autos and tea estates had been stored unchanged.  

The Power and Mineral Assets Division set the costs via a gazette notification issued on Wednesday making use of the brand new modification to the Bangladesh Power Regulatory Fee (BERC) Act, which empowered the federal government to set every kind of power costs bypassing the regulator’s jurisdictions at any time.

As per the gazette notification, the private and non-private energy crops together with the IPP and rental energy crops can pay gasoline value at Tk 14 per unit (every cubic metre) as a substitute of earlier value of Tk 5.02 whereas the captive energy crops, small energy crops and business energy crops can pay Tk 30 per unit as a substitute of earlier value of Tk 16.

The massive, medium and small industries can pay Tk 30 per unit towards the earlier value of Tk 11.98 for giant, Tk11.78 for medium and Tk 10.78 for small, cottage and different industries.

The business customers of gasoline like accommodations and eating places can pay Tk 30.50 as a substitute of earlier Tk 26.64 per unit.  

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The family shoppers will proceed to pay Tk 18 per unit for metered burners whereas Tk 990 for single burners and Tk 1080 for double burners every month.

The CNG value remained unchanged at Tk 43 for the motor autos, whereas tea estates can pay Tk 11.93 per unit as regular, mentioned the gazette notification.

Earlier, the BERC had raised the typical gasoline value by 22.78 % for the retail shoppers, apart from CNG-run autos, within the nation with impact again from June 1 in 2022.