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State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday said the Power Division will get Tk 1,893 crore as unpaid electricity bill from various ministries and departments of the government till September this year.
He said the Power Division will get maximum amount of Tk 905.21 crore from the Local Government Division.
In response to a query from ruling Awami League MP Md Mozaffar Hossain, he said by strengthening supervision and implementing various activities at the field level, it has been possible to reduce the amount of electricity bill in arrears in the past few years.
He said the government has taken various initiatives including setting an annual target for reducing in the Annual Performance Agreement (APA), holding inter-ministerial meetings for collection of dues from different government organisations, preparing list of bill defaulters and taking steps to recover them and disconnecting electricity, if necessary, to collect the unpaid electricity bills.
He also said all the customers are being brought under prepaid/smart meter to reduce the arrears in electricity bills.
In response to a query from Awami League MP Shahiduzzaman Sarker, the state minister said according to the latest (July 1, 2022) estimate, the amount of proven and potential recoverable gas reserves in the country is 28.59 trillion cubic feet.
