Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the businesspeople and industrialists to pay at least the cost of generation and procurement of electricity and gas if they want to avail uninterrupted supply of energy.
“If you want uninterrupted electricity and gas, then you have to pay the production cost or procurement cost at least. How long we will provide subsidy?,” she said while inaugurating the 27th edition of the ‘Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF)-2023’ on Sunday.
Hasina said that the government can’t provide a huge amount of subsidy on electricity and gas for an unlimited period that comes from the pockets of the mass people.
“We cannot give such a huge amount of public money as a subsidy, so businessmen and industrialists have to pay attention to this matter,” she said.