Many primary textile mills in the industrial belt of Gazipur are, reportedly, apprehending substantial financial loss as they continue to face disruption in production owing to low gas pressure.
The mill owners’ association in the country, Bangladesh Textiles Mills Association (BTMA), on 19 April (Monday) underlined that production at more than 50 mills had remained almost suspended for a lack of gas supply while expressing fears of suffering huge financial loss on account of failure to meet the delivery deadlines.
According to reports, the BTMA has written a letter in this direction to Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the Prime Minister’s power, energy and mineral resources adviser, underlining if the current situation continued to prevail, mill owners would fail to deliver orders on time and if the workers are not paid their wages on time, the law and order situation in the areas (Madhabkhola, Sripur, Baniarchala, Bhabanipur and Gazipur) might deteriorate even as it went on to highlight that spinning, weaving and fabric-processing mills in the said areas had suspended their production by 75 per cent for the last few weeks as the pressure of gas there had declined to 3 to 5 PSI from 15 PSI while urging the Government to resolve the gas supply problem.
Further, the letter signed by Mohammad Ali Khokon (BTMA President) maintained that the mill owners’ association on 7 April had sent a letter to the Managing Director of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited requesting to address the situation even as the letter maintained that the situation has deteriorated of late, rather than improving.
