<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b><font color="#634aa5">State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Sunday said gas supply situation will improve in Dhaka and adjacent areas in a day or two.</font></b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“We hope, gas shortage in Dhaka will decrease and we’ll&nbsp; see improvement in a day or two,” he said while briefing reporters at his ministry.</div><div><br></div><div>He noted that both the&nbsp; floating storage and re-gasification units (FSRU) in the country have resumed operation and the&nbsp; situation is gradually improving.</div><div><br></div><div>“However, one of them will undergo scheduled maintenance soon,” he said adding that normally the gas supply experiences some problems during the winter.</div><div><br></div><div>“But the government has taken measures to increase the supply of LPG as the some 80 percent of the residential consumers now use this liquified gas,”he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He said only consumers in Dhaka and adjoining areas use the pipeline gas while remaining use the LPG.</div><div><br></div><div>If the industrial consumers are deducted from the total consumers, the number of household consumers will be 25 lakh, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>He also informed that the government has a plan to install gas meters for all the consumers in next 3 years.</div><div><br></div><div>The country has been experiencing acute gas shortage since the start of the winter season. But the situation drastically deteriorated when one of the FSRUs experienced technical glitch on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>The FSRU was repaired and put on operation that led to slight improvement in gas supply to Chattagram and elsewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, another SFRU, which was on a 45-day scheduled maintenance, also resumed operation leading to a further improvement in the supply.</div><div><br></div><div>But the gas crisis was not fully resolved .</div><div><br></div><div>Many areas in Dhaka, Narayanganj and Gazipur had been experiencing extreme gas crises or low pressure problems. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>