Fuel price hike protested

Green Voice, a platform of young environmental activists, formed a human chain on the Dhaka University campus on Friday in protest against the fuel price hike. The organisation also demanded that the government should immediately revoke its decision of raising the fuel prices. Speaking on the occasion, green activists slammed the government for its decision to increase the prices of fuel oil, saying that it would further increase the people’s sufferings. Prices of essentials had gone up sharply due to fuel price hike two times this year, they said, adding that the latest decision of increasing the fuel prices would add to sufferings to common people. They alleged that the government had pushed the people towards a suffocating situation by increasing the fuel prices as per the prescription of International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Cashing in on fuel price hike, they said, many bus owners started collecting extra fare from the passengers. Fresh increase in the fuel prices would make some 4 lakh people poor, they added.