Residents who are paying money must get the piped cooking gas

At present a severe cooking gas crisis has gripped most parts of the capital despite the fact that residents are paying more money for gas. Soon after the fuel price hike by more than 50 per cent several months ago, the government increased the gas price also. A couple of days ago the retail electricity price was also hiked by five percent. When the price of all essential commodities increases, it is the poor and the lower income people who are hit hard. But this time the middle income people are equally affected by the rise of almost all daily necessary items since the income of these classes of people has shrunk, but inflation is too high.
However, the supply has crisis has become so acute that people in Dhanmondi, Mirpur, Pallabi, Bashabo, Dakshin Banasree, Mohammadpur, Moghbazar, Gandaria, Hazaribagh, Shukrabad, Azimpur, Badda and Rajabazar have gone for alternative options for cooking, including kerosene stoves, induction cookers and cylinder gas stoves. In these places, people do not get gas for five to 16 hours a day. No, this problem has not hit people all of a sudden now.
In fact, it started in July-August of last year and now the problem has become very acute. In the beginning, there used to be no gas supply for a few hours, but now it is as much as 16 hours. Quoting a resident, a report of a national daily said that people did not get gas for seven hours a day in the past nine months; it has not been supplied for about 16 hours a day for about a week.
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited reportedly admitted that there is a gas crisis, but it could not do anything about the gas crisis. Then whose headache it is to give people gas?
The ongoing gas crisis has become acute now as supply has been diverted to feed the industries. A high Titas official himself said if industries are provided with gas, as a consequence households will suffer and vice versa. The point, however, here is the people who are paying money for the piped supply of gas must get gas. It cannot be acceptable that they should pay extra money for alternative options for cooking.
The ongoing gas crisis, like other crises, also speaks of this government’s poor managerial ability.