Dear Sumit,
thnks 4 ur mail. bortoman tortabodaok sarkarer ki esob karar right aache?
nae. tara sudu ekta sutu nirbachon dibe. kintu dekhe mone hoe tara khamota
charbe na. Emnite to drobbo muller urdogatite Janoganer Nabisas. Tar upore
onader notun notun ........... Kichudin aage baralo CNG gas er dam. Aacha
Bolte paren aamra sadaron Janogano kothae gie darabo? E Kathata karo mone
thake na keno. AMRA KI GINIPIC? Sudu amader ke nie kata chera. BPC te
jara bose aache ...ek ekta baro chor....tara pvt company gulor sathe haat mile
BPC koti koti taka loksan dicche. Aar tar masul dicchi aamra -sadaron manush.
AAR KATOKAL CHOLBE AMADERKE NIE AE CHINIMINI KHELA. BOLTE
PAREN?
Valo thakun.........sob somoy !
Aar he amader ekhane meyeder sokha barale kemon hoe. O Noakhalider jonno
ekti satontro Chat room korle kemon hoe. Janaben.
Khaleda
Sumit Awal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bangladesh Government warned on Monday it would hike state-set fuel
prices soon as the government forecast it would lose $1.2 billion this fiscal
year due to soaring global energy costs.
'We simply don't have any alternative but to hike the prices as soon as
possible,' said deputy energy minister M. Tamim.
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corp. (BPC), the nation's monopoly oil importer and
distributor, sells fuel at prices decided by the government.
BPC officials said the company was racking up losses of 50 cents for each
litre of diesel it sells. Diesel is the main fuel used for vehicles in the
nation which has no domestic oil fields.
"Already this fiscal year (to June 2008) we are going to incur losses of
around $1.2 billion due to selling oil much more cheaply than international
market rates. We will raise the price very shortly," Tamim said.
In April 2007, Bangladesh's military-backed government raised fuel prices by
as much as 21 percent. At that time, it believed the oil price would stabilise
around $70 to $80 a barrel.
But last week global oil prices topped a record $135 a barrel with experts
forecasting further rises due to tight supply and increasing demand.
Inflation, which has been running at double-digit levels since August 2007,
has made the government wary of raising fuel prices further despite pressure
from multilateral aid agencies.
Tamim promised there would be 'still be a strong subsidy' after the next
price hike while some farmers would get cash handouts to cope with the
situation.
'We will protect marginal farmers from the price hike's impact. We will
earmark a very big portion of the subsidy for the farmers in the upcoming
budget' to be announced in early June, he said.
Over 70 percent of Bangladesh's 144 million people depend on agriculture,
with farmers heavily relying on diesel to pump underground water for irrigation.
Bangladesh imported 3.8 million tonnes of mostly refined oil during the last
financial year at a cost of over $2 billion.
BPC said "fuel import costs this year would hit more than $3 billion,
accounting for 18 percent of the total overall import bill."
