Goalpara power cut causes severe load shedding
Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Khulna, Bagerhat, Satkhira and Jessore districts under Khulna Zone are suffering severe load shedding as the 110MW unit of Goalpara power station went out of order on Thursday due to leakage in the acid tank. Besides domestic users, mills, factories and shrimp processing plants in Khulna area are victims of severe load shedding. It will need at least four or five days to repair the unit and make it ready for operation, Goalpara power station sources said yesterday. There are shrimps worth over Taka 100 crore in the processing plants in Khulna zone, sources said, adding that shrimp worth around Tk 100 crore is likely to be brought to the plants from different depots for processing within one week. Only 20 out of 43 shrimp processing plants in Khulna are now in operation. Even these 20 plants are not in a position to run full capacity due to irregular power supply. Shrimp exporters are now incurring huge financial losses due to serious disturbance in exporting frozen processed shrimp, said Humayun Kabir, joint secretary of Khulna chapter of Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters Association. The president of Khulna Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) also stressed the need for uninterrupted power supply to save national economy from disaster. The KCCI president strongly demanded installation of a 250MW power plant in Khulna.
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