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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2025
Titas cut 4 lakh connections for overdue bills, lack of authorisation

Energy

Eyamin Sajid
05 January, 2023, 11:05 pm
Last modified: 05 January, 2023, 11:14 pm

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Titas cut 4 lakh connections for overdue bills, lack of authorisation

As of November 2022, the company’s total receivable from the public and private consumers was Tk6,520 crore

Eyamin Sajid
05 January, 2023, 11:05 pm
Last modified: 05 January, 2023, 11:14 pm
Titas Gas head office in Karwan Bazar. Photo: Collected
Titas Gas head office in Karwan Bazar. Photo: Collected

In order to ensure smooth gas supply to authorised customers and recover outstanding bills, the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited cut around four lakh illegal connections at different consumer levels last year.

Of the total cut off connections – over 3.96 lakh were domestic lines while 739 were industrial, commercial, captive and CNG consumer lines, according to Titas Gas data.

The connections were cut off through 8,849 mobile courts and special drives from January to December 2022, said the company.

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Md Haronur Rashid Mullah, managing director of Titas Gas, told The Business Standard that the operations to cut off illegal connections at all consumer levels will be continued.

"This year, along with the private connection, we are going to cut off the public organisations' connections that have outstanding gas bills," said Md Haronur Rashid Mullah.

Titas Gas – the largest among the six state-owned gas distribution companies –supplies gas to customers in Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions.

Currently, the company has around 28.77 lakh connections, among which 28.58 lakhs are domestic, said sources at Titas Gas.

As of November 2022, the company's total receivable from the public and private consumers was Tk6,520 crore. Out of that amount, public sector companies owed Titas Tk1,057 crore and private consumers Tk5,463 crore.

Of the total cut off connections of last year, around 50,469 were cut due to outstanding bills and rest were for lacking authorisation.

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