Stalling game denies captive power supply to the national grid
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
WE are stunned from the appalling newspaper report that captive producer offer to sell 200mw surplus power to state distributors went unheeded as Power Development Board (PDB), Rural Electrification Board (REB) etc., are unwilling to buy citing " bureaucratic tangles". This is simply atrocious, disgusting and outrageous!
When the citizens of the country are passing agonising hours and days over an unprecedented power shortage, inactiveness by the authorities concerned to take necessary positive action in this respect is unbelievable. Had this offer not overlooked by the state bureaucrats, the unbearable crisis in the capital could be eased to some extent, at least. When Rome was burning, Nero was fluting! We demand immediate punitive action by the Prime Minister against those irresponsible bureaucrats who by taking salary from the tax payers' money failed to perform their duties at such a critical juncture when heat, outage, water crisis etcetera cripple city life.
Instruction should be given by the appropriate authorities immediately to the concerned officials to arrange cashing of the offer forthwith. I just wonder whether the issue was at all known to the ministry of energy who appears to have gone into hibernation.
However, in Bangladesh, perhaps it is still possible when the energy minister himself few days back admitted that the situation was out of his control. If that is the situation, as a tax payer may I ask why he is still at the helm of affairs ?
Mohammad Ataul Hoque
Dhaka
When the citizens of the country are passing agonising hours and days over an unprecedented power shortage, inactiveness by the authorities concerned to take necessary positive action in this respect is unbelievable. Had this offer not overlooked by the state bureaucrats, the unbearable crisis in the capital could be eased to some extent, at least. When Rome was burning, Nero was fluting! We demand immediate punitive action by the Prime Minister against those irresponsible bureaucrats who by taking salary from the tax payers' money failed to perform their duties at such a critical juncture when heat, outage, water crisis etcetera cripple city life.
Instruction should be given by the appropriate authorities immediately to the concerned officials to arrange cashing of the offer forthwith. I just wonder whether the issue was at all known to the ministry of energy who appears to have gone into hibernation.
However, in Bangladesh, perhaps it is still possible when the energy minister himself few days back admitted that the situation was out of his control. If that is the situation, as a tax payer may I ask why he is still at the helm of affairs ?
Mohammad Ataul Hoque
Dhaka