Bangladesh has ruled out any immediate decision on the proposed $2.5 billion investment by Tata Group, saying it was yet to get a clear picture on the country's gas reserve to guarantee supply to the Indian conglomerate.
"One of the issues closely related to the Tata investment is the gas reserve as its proposal tags the uninterrupted supply of gas to Tata project for several years . . . It is not possible to take a decision as we don't have any concrete data about the actual gas reserve," Commerce Adviser Mirza A B Azizul Islam told reporters after a meeting with an Asian Development Bank delegation.
"Before assessing the gas situation we cannot give a guarantee," he said.
When pointed out that the past Bangladesh Nationalist Party government
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