KHULNA, Feb 06 (BSS): Bangladesh Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) of Dumuria upazila is being implemented eight targets to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
As part of the Mujib Year celebration programme, the PBS of Dumuria upazila has completed the initiatives to ensure 100 per cent electricity coverage in its all villages, said a PBS official here today.
The PBS has set eight targets in order to provide improved and quality services to the users and create skilled manpower in the rural areas, he said.
"We have already set eight targets to mark the Bangabandhu's birth centenary which will be celebrated as 'Mujib Barsho' and we'll observe it as service year," Deputy General Manager (DGM) of PBS in Dumuria Zonal office Md Abdul Matin said on Wednesday.
The targets are: ensuring 100 per cent electricity coverage, continuation of 'Alor Feriwala', a programme to resolve customer harassment to connect electricity, ensuring uninterrupted power supply and implementing 'Amar Gram Amar Shohor' programme, to enforce 'zero tolerance' policy against corruption, introducing 'paperless office' to build 'Digital Bangladesh',
establishing eco-friendly Solar Irrigation Pumps, improving the strength of youth and enrichment of Bangladesh to develop skilled manpower through training.
PBS has already made 60 youth skilled manpower from different villages of the Dumuria upazila through training in last two month, he said, adding "We want to improve rural life by efficient supply of electricity. That's why the
targets have been taken up… Under the project, opportunities will be created for huge kinds of electricity-based small businesses like agro-processing industry, small scale local garments, automated rice husking, fish storage, repair and maintenance of electrical equipment."
"In the last five years, a total of 85,000 subscribers have been brought under the electricity coverage of the upazila," said the PBS official.
The Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) has given instructions to the respective authorities to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity as part of the Mujib Year celebration.
DGM Matin also said that the government has undertaken various projects in different terms aimed at implementing the initiatives to supply electricity to each house by 2021.
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