Interview……9 Mar 2025 17:12
Just a snippet I found from exactly a year ago…….the same Shamsul Alam who chaired the coal meeting for the govt………
M Shamsul Alam: There has been no development in the power sector in a real sense. In fact, it is in dire straits. The cost of power supply has been increased unjustly and unfairly. Power generation has even been decreased in order to cut down on subsidies. The reality is that though there is adequate generation, transmission and distribution in comparison to the demand, there is a power crisis because the standard of capacity development is no maintained. This impacts industrial production. Due to the gas crisis, low cost power generation by the government has decreased. Yet that gas is being supplied to the private sector power plants and power is being purchased from there at high costs. Rather than turning to the extraction and use of our own gas and coal, importance is being given to imported coal, LNG and oil-fire power generation. Over all, the developments in the power sector have strategically planned such a manner which is not at all people-friendly. It promotes looting and high costs.
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