Nearly 50 lakh vehicles plying in Bangladesh: JS body

At present there are 49 lakh 91 thousand 75 different types of vehicles in the country, according to the parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources.
Of these, 41.73 lakh (83%) run by gasoline (octane/petrol), 5.39 lakh are powered by diesel, 2.38 lakh are powered by CNG, 6,278 vehicles are powered by LGP, 32,246 are powered by dual fuel, 40 are electric motor driven, 158 are run by diesel/CNG and 75 are run by kerosene.
This information was placed to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources meeting held at the Parliament House on Thursday.
Officials at the Ministry of Power informed the committee that it had collected this information from the Road Transport Authority.
According to the information, 79 percent of the country’s public transport runs on diesel and 10 percent on CNG.
Out of 41,73,956 vehicles powered by gasoline, 34,94,088 are motorcycles (84%). A total of 38.88 lakh motorcycles in the country are run using other types of fuel.
According to the report, there are currently 49,839 buses in the country. Of these, 5,140 are powered by gasoline, 39,503 are powered by diesel, 5,121 are powered by CNG, 5 are powered by LGP and 66 are powered by dual fuel.
Out of 2.38 lakh vehicles powered by CNG, 2.12 lakh are auto-rickshaws (89%).
According to the report, there are currently 75 different types of vehicles running on kerosene in the country. Of these, one ambulance, 16 auto-rickshaws, seven cars,
one delivery van, one human hauler, two jeeps, four motorcycles, 36 pickups, one tanker, three trucks, one special tactical vehicle, and two others types of vehicles.
Ruling Awami League MP and chief of the parliamentary watchdog Wasika Ayesha Khan chaired the meeting.