Hasina inaugurates four power plants, calls for frugality

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated four power plants, a transmission line and a sub-station.

She commissioned the plants at Natore, Narayanganj, Munshiganj and Narsinghdi from the Ganabhaban on Sunday afternoon.
 
The prime minister also launched the 400-KV Meghnaghat-Aminbazar transmission line and a sub-station at Lalbagh in Dhaka.
 
At the inauguration ceremony, she urged the people to be economic in their use of electricity.
 
Hasina said her government wanted development throughout Bangladesh, not in regions already developed.
 
She observed electricity was a precondition for development.
 
The prime minister said now electricity had reached around 70 percent of the country’s population and outage dropped substantially.
 

She said the highest 7,571 megawatts of power were generated in a day during her government. 

The daily generation was only 1,600 megawatts in 1996, when her party, the Awami League, formed government.

There are 9,555 kilometres of transmission lines and 332,000 kilometres of distribution lines in the country.

Hasina said solar power had been taken to the areas lacking grid lines.

She said Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and India had plans to develop regional power plants.