Textile millers today urged the government to reduce the gas price to below Tk 20 per unit from the current Tk 31 and to halt yarn imports through land ports.

The millers said they are operating at half their capacity due to low gas pressure, and they are finding it difficult to compete with cheap yarn imported from India.

These demands were made at a press conference organised by the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association at the Gulshan Club in Dhaka.

The millers warned they might submit their factory keys to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) as they will be unable to run their units under these challenges.