State-owned Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limited (BGDCL) has earned Tk 2231.23 crore as revenue and Tk 81.84 crore as profit in the 2018-19 fiscal that ended on June 30, 2019. It was disclosed in the 39th annual meeting of the Company, which has been held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka recently, BGDCL officials said.
Parveen Akhter, additional secretary (development) of Energy and Mineral Resources Division and chairman, board of directors of BGDCL, presided over the meeting. The company started its function since June 7, 1980 in the name of Bakhrabad Gas Systems Limited (BGSL) as a model company to produce, transmit and distribute gas. Later on, the production activities of the Company including Bakhrabad Gas Field was handed over to Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL) on 31 May 1989.
