As gas pressure drops due to its short supply, consumers in many areas of the city are feeling the pinch of the crisis.   Many families just get an hour or so, usually early in the morning, to cook the entire day’s meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Many others don’t even get a moment to light their gas burners from dawn to dusk.   In such a terrible condition, they said, the proposal for raising gas price came to them as an absolute mockery. READ: Gas supply suspended in B’Baria as pipeline gets damaged State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, however, said he prefers only a 5-10 per cent hike in the prices of gas, particularly for the household consumers. His comments came in the wake of state-run gas distributors’ recent proposal to double the gas price for household customers. Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, the largest gas supply entity for Dhaka city and adjoining districts, in a release on January 12, informed the consumers will experience low pressure in gas supply for 10 days during 12-21 January due to technical reasons. As per Titas website, the largest gas distribution entity’s command area includes Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Narsingdi, Tangail, Manikganj, Mymensingh, Kishoreganj, Jamalpur, and Munshiganj where over 2.8 million consumers receive gas from the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company. The notified 10 days are over, but the crisis still persists.  In many areas, it has aggravated.