Dhaka, Nov. 7 -- A move finally comes to manage fuel dearth and dollar disarray as the government high-ups instruct giving gas to industries even through costly LNG import and synchronizing multiple rates of the greenback, sources say. In the wake of irregular and inadequate supply of the primary energy to domestic mills and factories, Bangladesh's business bodies have urged the government to import gas from the overheated global market and that they are ready to pay higher for the fuel for the sake of keeping the wheel of production rolling.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a meeting Sunday with the secretaries of different ministries at her residence at Ganabhaban gave the direction while reviewing the country's overall economic situati...