Energy : Hard to keep faith on pledges only
Monday, 8 February 2010
The government in the first year of its tenure has done poorly in a very vital area where circumstances dictated it to work on a war footing. All of the government's ambitious plan of drawing foreign investments and in enthusing the local investors depend on augmenting energy supplies at the soonest. The greatest predicament for the Bangladesh economy stems from insufficient energy supply or dwindling supply of power and gas falling far short of demand.
The greatest expectation from the elected government was its going to work in a very focused manner from day one in its tenure to increase energy supplies considerably at the fastest and to assure through its activities that substantial additions of power and gas to their respective national grids would be achieved in the mid term. But addition of energies to the national grids have been meager compared to the need or expectation. Despite the government pledging sometime ago that at least 1,300 mw of power would be added to the national grid by march or April next, no one with actual knowledge of works done in this area is keeping faith in such promises.
Muzzafar Ahmed
Iqbal Road
Mohammadpur
Daka
The greatest expectation from the elected government was its going to work in a very focused manner from day one in its tenure to increase energy supplies considerably at the fastest and to assure through its activities that substantial additions of power and gas to their respective national grids would be achieved in the mid term. But addition of energies to the national grids have been meager compared to the need or expectation. Despite the government pledging sometime ago that at least 1,300 mw of power would be added to the national grid by march or April next, no one with actual knowledge of works done in this area is keeping faith in such promises.
Muzzafar Ahmed
Iqbal Road
Mohammadpur
Daka