Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
No remarkable improvement of power situation is seen in the ongoing summer season that causes huge suffering for the HSC examinees and Boro farmers. Residents and boro farmers yesterday experienced ten to sixteen hours electricity cut, according to sources. There was 1,800MW of load shedding yesterday against the demand of 5,500MW, sources said.
Speakers at a discussion meeting yesterday said that the people were facing severe electricity and gas crisis due to government's lack of commitment.
The government is going to expand its next Annual Development Programme (ADP) to near about Tk 29000 crore, ignoring experts' suggestion to limit the development budget within it's capacity to implement.
Power outage and scarcity of water have turned serious in Sylhet city for the last few days, causing immense sufferings to the people. Currently, the city is getting only 50MW power against the total demand for 100MW, said sources at Power Development Board, Sylhet. The city corporation is supplying only one-third of the demand of water to the residents of limited areas.
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry Thursday invited Nigeria to invest in various fields, especially in power sector, as the apex business body presented before a delegation from the African country huge investment opportunities here.
National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Electricity and Port yesterday demanded the government to solve the electricity, gas and coal problems. The committee made the demand from a procession at Mohammadpur in the city yesterday.
Bangladesh, where natural gas reserves are falling while demand for power is rising fast, will not allow new power plants that cannot use both gas and coal, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said on Sunday.
Miners of Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd (BCMCL) and workers of 250-MW Barapukuria Power Plant urged the government yesterday to form a strong monitoring team to keep an eye on these two state-run giant projects to prevent any corruption by BCMCL and the power plant officials. They alleged that the officials of BCMCL and the power plant are using the projects for their personal gains.
The Word Bank (WB) is satisfied with the spending of its funds in Bangladesh during the first five months of the present government and pledged increased assistance for rapid socio-economic development of the country.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underscored the need for using environment-friendly state-of-the-art technology in extracting coal from Barapukuria coalmine so that local villagers do not suffer any kind of loss from soil subsidence.