Maintaining power cut schedule

A new era of area-wise planned power cuts across Bangladesh has begun recently to tackle the ongoing gas and power crises. However, the plan for one to two hours of load-shedding has failed in many places on the first day. The authorities concerned could not maintain the schedule in the country's rural areas, particularly in northern districts. These districts are now experiencing three to four hours of load-shedding every day. Like the northern districts, the situation is more or less the same elsewhere in the country. Even people in Dhaka city along with its adjacent areas experience power cuts 2-3 times a day ---each for 30 minutes to one hour outside the fixed schedules declared by the authorities.
Amid hot weather, power outages in the country have brought miseries to the daily lives of people. A number of people have already shown angry reactions by posting on social media. People are struggling to complete household chores and sectors like medical, education, factories and agriculture are suffering a lot. Cold storages are in dire straits because of non-stop power outage. The government should act sincerely so that it can deal with the worsening electricity situation. It should also be strict to maintain the area-based load-shedding schedule.

Ashikujaman Syed,
Research Assistant,
Bioinformatics Research Lab,
Center for Research Innovation and Development (CRID),
syedashikujaman@yahoo.com