Gas supply to Dhaka's Jurain and its adjourning areas has been suspended for eight hours on Thursday, due to relocation of gas pipelines for tie-in installation.
The areas include Jurain Madrasa Road, Zia Smarani, AK School Road, Jurain Medical Road, Muradpur Pokar Bazar and Mir Hazaribagh, said a press release of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL).
The gas supply to the respective areas went down at 10:30am Thursday, and is expected to resume after 6pm.
The outage has already affected household, commercial, captive power, industrial and CNG (compressed natural gas) consumers in the aforementioned areas.
The relocation of pipelines is meant to fix low gas pressure in the area, the release added.
Gas outages and low pressure are two major problems Dhaka dwellers face very often, with the crisis worsening every winter.
Consumers also come across the problems owing to the installation and replacement of gas pipelines on a regular basis, mainly because of slack coordination between utility agencies and development projects.
Titas is already facing a shortfall of at least 300mmcfd gas against the demand of around 2,200mmcfd. In the Dhaka metropolitan area alone, the demand is nearly 1,700mmcfd.
With 2,865,907 consumers, including 45 power plants, three fertilizer factories, 1,680 captive power producers, and 5,279 industrial units, Titas supplies gas under seven categories to the Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions.
Currently, Titas' household consumers' number is 2,846,419, with the number of commercial and CNG users standing at 12,075 and 394 respectively.