Naogaon, Gaibandha
Thousands suffer for want of transformers
Over 500 families in three villages of Sadar upazila are without power supply for over nine days till yesterday as a transformer of the area went out of order.
The power-hungry people of Dhamkuri, Ikarkuri and Enayepur villages staged demonstrations in front of the local office of Power Development Board (PDB) on Sunday and demanded withdrawal of resident engineer Ferdous Alam, assistant engineer Zahid and lineman DM Abdul Majid.
Locals said a transformer went out of order at Dhamkuri village nine days ago, disrupting electricity supply to the three villages.
But the PDB authorities did not take any step to get the transformer repaired or replace it with a new one though they time and again approached the officials at the local power office.
The locals alleged that the PDB officials had demanded a large sum as bribe for installing a new transformer.
In Gaibandha, a few hundred people of Kuthipara area in the town yesterday protested power shut down for the last four days, reports our correspondent.
The protesters said, on Friday evening, a transformer of the area went out of order, plunging the whole area into darkness.
All requests to the local PDB officials for replacing the transformer fell on deaf ears, they said.
Frustrated, the local people brought out a procession, demanding immediate restoration of power supply.
The protesters paraded the main roads of Gaibandha town and later besieged the PDB office for around three hours.
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