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Download PDF The government incurred a loss of at least Tk 40 lakh as a few unscrupulous PGCL (Pashchimancal Gas Company Limited) officials laid gas pipelines for two private housing companies free of charge, said sources at PGCL.
A preliminary investigation of Petrobangla revealed that the free gas service pipelines were installed for Jannat Rasul Model Town and Snigdha Housing under Bogra Town Gas Supply Project.
Admitting the irregularities, Saiful Alam Chowdhury, managing director of PGCL, yesterday told this correspondent over cell phone that he was not certain about the exact amount of loss the government incurred due to this.
At least two kilometres of pipeline was laid for the Snigdha Housing at Nisindara and another 500 metres for the Jannat Rasul Model Town at Banani in Bogra free of charge, the Petrobangla investigation found.
Snigdha Housing owner Moyez Uddin Mian earlier admitted to receiving the free pipeline at the housing project.
Engineer Fazle Alam, deputy manager and in charge of PGCL Bogra office, a few days back said any government or non-government organisation has to pay connection and service charges for a gas service pipeline.
To conform to this rule, the PGCL charged around Tk 77 lakh to lay gas pipeline for Bogra cantonment, added Alam.
Earlier, PGCL’s former managing director Mohammed Kamrul Islam said it has been almost a year since the irregularities in laying pipeline for the Jannat Rasul Model Town prompted the PGCL to lodge a formal complaint and form an investigation committee.
The committee, however, is yet to conduct any investigation, he added.
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