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100% percent prepaid gas meters within 4 years: Nasrul Hamid

Special Correspondent Energy 2024-02-17, 9:06pm

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100% percent prepaid gas meters within 4 years: Nasrul Hamid



Sylhet, Feb 17 - State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Saturday said 100 percent prepaid gas meters will be installed within the next four years.

"Every consumer will come under prepaid gas meters within the next four years," he said.

The State Minister came up with the remarks after visiting the head office of Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System Limited in Sylhet in the morning.

Nasrul Hamid said, "We want to complete prepaid meters' installation as soon as possible. I talked with different companies. Now, many including the World Bank, and ADB want to finance. They will install about 30 lakh meters".

He also expressed his satisfaction with the services of JGTDSL.

"They have no system loss and no illegal connections. I saw the data centre and thought it was great," he added.

Lawmaker from Sylhet-3  MP Habibur Rahman Habib, Company Managing Director Md. Atiqur Rahman, Project Director and General Manager (Marketing) Liton Kumar Nandi and senior officials were present.

Earlier, the State Minister inaugurated the Bangabandhu Corner and prepaid meter project data centre at the head office.-UNB