Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said she asked the Power Division to effect a two-hour daily outage to remind the people how much they had suffered earlier
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"I have ordered the Power Division to enforce load-shedding for an hour in the morning and another hour in the evening so that people do not forget the suffering caused by loadshedding," the Prime Minister said in Parliament. "It helps in a way--it cuts power bill," she joked.
She made the comment during her question time.
Asked by Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Hoque, she said Ramadan was free of power crisis and stressed minimising power use for boosting production.
Responding to the question posed by Independent MP Fazlul Azim, the Prime Minister spoke about her government's plan to increase power production to 24,000 MW and claimed that the current production was 8315 MW.
"We left office in 2001 when the power production was 4300 MW. When we returned to power in 2008, the production was 3200 MW. Power production has become normal due to our prompt measures," Hasina added.
Currently, there are 51 power plants that are producing 3595 MW daily running on gas and oil.
Hasina mentioned the installation of grid line and sub-stations to import 500 MW of power from India and said, "The power will be available from the middle of next year."
According to the Prime Minister, daily gas production is 2200 mmcf now and power stations get 950 mmcf to 1,000 mmcf gas daily.
She hoped another 420 mmcf to 480 mmcf gas will be added to the supply line by next year.
Speaker Abdul Hamid said 100 KW power was being produced every day using solar power.
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"I have ordered the Power Division to enforce load-shedding for an hour in the morning and another hour in the evening so that people do not forget the suffering caused by loadshedding," the Prime Minister said in Parliament. "It helps in a way--it cuts power bill," she joked.
She made the comment during her question time.
Asked by Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Hoque, she said Ramadan was free of power crisis and stressed minimising power use for boosting production.
Responding to the question posed by Independent MP Fazlul Azim, the Prime Minister spoke about her government's plan to increase power production to 24,000 MW and claimed that the current production was 8315 MW.
"We left office in 2001 when the power production was 4300 MW. When we returned to power in 2008, the production was 3200 MW. Power production has become normal due to our prompt measures," Hasina added.
Currently, there are 51 power plants that are producing 3595 MW daily running on gas and oil.
Hasina mentioned the installation of grid line and sub-stations to import 500 MW of power from India and said, "The power will be available from the middle of next year."
According to the Prime Minister, daily gas production is 2200 mmcf now and power stations get 950 mmcf to 1,000 mmcf gas daily.
She hoped another 420 mmcf to 480 mmcf gas will be added to the supply line by next year.
Speaker Abdul Hamid said 100 KW power was being produced every day using solar power.
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