Power shortage
Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Puranapaltan, Dhaka
There is a shortage of power this is the hard fact and this shortage cannot be resolved overnightthe situation will remain difficult for another 2-3 years. It will take minimum 2-3 years to add another 3000MW to the national greed. So during these 2-3 years we are to manage power from whatever sources we have.A few suggestions in this respect.
1. Weekly holidays 2 days in govt. & semi govt. offices & banks.
2. Factories one day weekly holiday but the holiday must not be on the same day for all the factories should be fixed on 7 different days for different factories.
3. Schools, colleges two weekly holidays. a) Schools should start at 7:30 to 9:30am. b) Govt. offices-- 8:00am to 4:00am. c) Banks-- 9:00am to 5:00pm d) Shops from 9:00am to 7:00pm excepting hotels, food and medicine shops. There should be one day weekly holiday. When all shops close at 7:00pm, there will be no effect at all on sales. This will also help ease traffic congestion in Dhaka.
4. Electricity tariff should be at least 15% more for any office, shop, residence which uses AC. Load-shedding should be done for one hour at a time and may be done as many times required in 24 hours but not 2-3 hours at a stretch.
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