The government is planning to reduce prices of octane, petrol, diesel and kerosene in two or three phases. State minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, made this disclosure while talking to journalists at his Secretariat office on Monday. He told reporters that prices of octane, petrol, diesel and kerosene could be reduced by Tk. 15 to Tk. 20 per litre in three phases. Later, Hamid told The Independent that the price reduction per litre would be between Tk. 6 and Tk. 10 in the first phase. “The announcement regarding the first phase reduction may come within a week,” he added. Hamid said after the cut in the price of furnace oil last week, the government decided to adjust the price of octane, petrol, diesel…

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