 | Power Minister Anwar Talukder resigns
30 September, 2006
State Minister for Power Major General (retd) Anwarul Kabir Talukder resigned yesterday, a day after electricity-riot in the capital city.
"I have decided to resign from the government taking the responsibility for failures to improve the power situation," he told reporters last night at his official residence.
He said he would send his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia this morning.
With Anwarul Kabir Talukder-two State Ministers of Power resigned from the government within a short span of four months time for failure to improve erratic power situation across the country. His predecessor Iqbal Hossain Mahmud had to quit earlier.
About 100 police personnel and hundreds of peoples were Thursday when the power riots broke in the city.
Meanwhile, the power supply situation in the city and different places in the country was more or less stable yesterday since it was a public holiday and comparatively less humid day.
Besides, a senior official in the Power Development Board told The New Nation that increase of power generation from some power units including Ghorashal also helped keep the situation in control.
The official hoped that the power supply situation could be normal today since it is also another holiday when the demand remained comparatively less. However, none could say what the situation would be in the weekdays.
Referring to the government measures to conserve power by keeping major shopping malls closed for four hours and cutting electricity supply to billboards in the city, he said it would also save around 25 megawatt of power per day.
State Minister for Power Anwarul Kabir Talukder yesterday told reporters that the authorities were trying to find out whether there was inefficiency of power officials behind the outages over last two days.
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