Power crisis: Menon blames govt
Workers' Party of Bangladesh President Rashed Khan Menon yesterday criticised the government saying that it has failed to come up with a 'visible solution' to the country's electricity crisis in the last three years.
The government has hiked the electricity price five times in its tenure while the power crisis remains unsolved, said Menon, a lawmaker of the ruling grand alliance and also chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on education ministry.
He was speaking at a roundtable styled “Electricity crisis and public interest” organised by the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, a partner of the ruling grand alliance, at Dhaka Reporters' Unity in the capital, said a press release.
Criticising the government's strategy to set up rental power plants, Menon said the system has failed to solve the power crisis, rather the government is hiking the power price in phases to arrange subsidy for those plants.
He also urged the government to be transparent with the people on the issue and to formulate effective power and energy policy on the basis of actual information.
Subid Ali Bhuiyan, chairman of the standing committee on power, energy and mineral resources ministry, admitted that severe power crisis persists across the country and termed quick rental power project an emergency-basis solution to address the problem.
"We will have to work towards producing 10,000 megawatt electricity parentally," he said.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal President Hasanul Haque Inu stressed the need for strengthening regional demotic ties to launch long-term initiative to address the crisis.
Communist Party of Bangladesh General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim and Workers' Party of Bangladesh politburo member Noor Ahmed Bakul also spoke at the roundtable.
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