Body formed to review roles, structures of BREB, PBS

The government on Thursday constituted a five-member committee to review roles and structures of the state-run Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) and the Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) units.
The committee has been formed following last week's dismissals of some 20 BREB officers and employees and subsequent protests by BREB and PBS employees across the country.
It will review documents and necessary files of both BREB and PBSs, and their organisational structures before making suggestions for their better operations in future.
The contributions of the BREB and the PBSs in ensuring cent per cent electrification across the country were taken into consideration to constitute the committee to ensure further improvement.
The committee will also interview employees of both entities and their representatives to gather information, according to a press release issued by power, energy and mineral resources ministry.
Brac University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Syed Farhat Anwar is the president of the national committee.
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Asian Centre for Development director Prof AK Enamul Haque, Prof Md Ziaur Rahman Khan of electrical and electronics engineering department at BUET, Prof Mohammad Mahboob Rahman of Brac University and Prof Khaled Mahmud of the Institute of Business Administration at Dhaka University are members of the committee.
BREB and PBSs will provide all necessary documents to the committee to carry out its job, according to the statement.
The committee will recommend a competent, competitive, technologically skilled and economically sustainable structure for the rural electrification sector based on its review.