Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan on Sunday admitted that Bangladesh is facing severe crisis while paying import bills for various essential items including fuel.

"What the representative from Bangladesh Bank said, essential items like fossil fuel or gas whatever you say which is a must for running industries and transportation (sector), without these Bangladesh will not move forward. We are not properly paying these bills due to dollar crisis," he said.

He also mentioned that due to the dollar crisis the payment of bill of these imports are facing severe problems.

The NBR chairman said this while holding a meeting with the stakeholders of gold importers to encourage this commercially in th...