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Erratic Power Supply Causes Suffering

June 21, 2000

GOPALGANJ, June 20 : Erratic power supply has been causing heavy loss to the small industries and factories and immense suffering to the people, reports UNB.Subscribers said electricity sometimes remains off for 8 12 hours a day virtually suspending all production activities.

Some rice mill owners alleged that they have been incurring heavy loss, particularly during this season due to prolonged loadshedding.During the IRRI Boro season, farmers had to face the same problem due to which they could not operate their pumps resulting in poor harvesting.

The concerned officials said the current power disruption is mainly due to short supply of electricity from the sub station at Gomastapur in Madaripur district.The district has no sub station to supply the electricity

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Massive power shortage

By Staff Correspondent

A massive power shortage of about 471 MW disrupted electricity supplies to many places in the country, PDB sources said.

Initially, PDB's generation target for yesterday was 2343 MW against the projected requirement of 2650 MW and it was supposed to allocate 271 MW load-shedding across the country.

But the unexpected shut down of Ghorasal-3 unit which has the generating capacity of 210 MW resulted in severe power crisis across the country, sources added.

Besides, 17 other power generating units out of country's 63 remained shut down yesterday. PDB control room attributed the suspension of power generation at Ghorasal-3 and the other 17 units to 'technical reasons'.

The control room said last night that they were expecting restoration of power generation at Ghorasal-3 unit, which was shut at about 5-30 pm, within a few hours. But the unit remained shut till filing of this report at about 8:30 pm.

Meanwhile, the capital and its adjacent areas yesterday experienced power shortage of 150 MW. Besides the low voltage problem coupled with frequent power disruption in the sultry weather increased sufferings of the city people.

All most all areas in the metropolis suffered frequent power disruption throughout the day. The power situation in the metropolis deteriorated in the evening.

Lalbagh and Postogola areas of the old city was the worst affected areas yesterday. Besides, areas under Khilgaon, Dhanmondi, Kakrail, Madartek, Taltola sub stations suffered extra power disruption as one of the Ulon 1.32 KV grid station transformer remained out of order for more than four months.

DESA sources said yesterday that they were replacing the transformer. But it would take another few days to complete the replacement process.

The power units which remained shut yesterday are: Raujan-2, Sylhet Gas, Shahjibazar 3, Haripur 1, Fenchuganj Gas Turbine 1, 2 and Fenchuganj Steam, Khulna Barge Mounted Plant-1, Siddhirganj 50 MW, Baghabari Gas, Kaptai 3, Ashuganj 1 and 2, Ashuganj Gas Turbine 1 and 2, Ghorasal 6, and Rangpur Gas Turbine.

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