Free home delivery service of Bashundhara LP gas launched

Country’s leading business conglomerate Bashundhara Group has launched free home delivery service of its LP gas on phone calls. Bashundhara Group Vice Chairman Shafiat Sobhan Sanbir inaugurated an ‘Order Point’ in the Bashundhara Residential Area on Sunday to offer the service. Group Adviser (Finance) and daily sun publisher Maynal Hossain Chowdhury, Adviser (Press and Media) Mohammad Abu Tayeb, DMD Mostafizur Rahman, and cement sector DMD Engineer AKM Mahbub-Uz-Zaman were also present on the occasion. Speaking at the function, the vice chairman said Bashundhara Group wants to take its services at the door of LPG consumers. He said the new order point will function as ‘direct sales point’ and ‘instant home delivery point’ for the residents of Bashundhara and its neighbouring areas. It will be trouble-free for them to collect LPG cylinders, he added. “Our officials are ready to give home delivery service within three hours of receiving a phone call from 9 am to 5 pm everyday initially. But, anybody can collect LP gas cylinders from the point up to 9pm,” he said. The point has two phone lines -- 01991197804 and 16339 -- for receiving orders from consumers. Shafiat Sobhan Sanbir said Bashundhara Group has a plan to expand the free home delivery service across the country in future. Bashundhara LP Gas Ltd Head of Brand and Marketing Department MM Jasim Uddin, Head of A&F Department Mahbubul Alam, Head of Supply Chain Division Md Abdus Shukur, Head of Sales Mir TI Faruk Rizvi and DMG (Operation and Planning) Jakaria Jalal also attended the function. Bashundhara LP Gas Ltd is the first private LPG plant in the country. It has a higher production rate than any other filling station in Bangladesh. It possesses 3000 tonnes storage capacity, the largest among the LPG plants in Bangladesh.