The government-run Tongi 105-megawatt power station did not produce a single watt of electricity in 2017-18, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22. In the whole year of 2018-19,
The weak financial state of the BPDB is partly due to the high per unit price of electricity
Frequent outages amid heatwaves lay bare the dysfunctional state of power sector
Public money is being used to shore up PDB's losses and pay profiteering private companies
The national energy crisis is a direct result of the corruption and nepotism encouraged by the indemnity law.
