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No fuel import subsidy taken for 6 months: BPC

Staff Correspondent
10 Aug 2022 19:30:05 | Update: 10 Aug 2022 19:32:04
No fuel import subsidy taken for 6 months: BPC
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Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) Chairman ABM Azad demanded that the import cost of fuel oil has been met for the last 6 months from the allocation of ongoing development projects and without taking a subsidy from the government's finance division.  

He disclosed the information to journalists at BPC's temporary office at Karwanbazar in the capital on Wednesday.

ABM Azad claimed that due to the increase in oil price; BPC is counting a loss of Tk 6 per litre of diesel, and making a profit of Tk 25 per litre octane.

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