Contractors’ delay idles ADP projects even after award
By: Jasim Khan Contractors delaying work start in development projects of the government after getting the work have contributed to the record low implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) and poor utilisation of external aid. Both big and mid level contractors after winning the contracts start bargaining with the government for raising the cost [...]
A power plant waste spilling down to the south-eastern Halda River, has posed serious threat to ecology of Bangladesh’s largest fish breeding ground in Chittagong, a parliamentary panel told on Tuesday. The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of fisheries and livestock at a meeting expressed grave concern over the construction of the power plant, [...]
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By: Kazi Zahidul Hasan The latest hike in power prices has evoked criticism from experts and business leaders, who said that such move of government would create further burden for the common man as well as the industry. The government has raised electricity prices again Thursday on the plea to reduce subsidy burden on the [...]
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Dhaka, Mar 29 (bdnews24.com) –The government has decided to observe Earth Hour on the last Saturday of March to encourage households and businesses to switch off non-essential lights to save energy. Bangladeshis will join hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world to support the largest environment event in history to raise [...]
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The government on Thursday increased electricity price by Tk 0.28 per unit for bulk users and Tk 0.30 per unit for retail users for the second time this year. The new rates of power are effective from March 1, 2012. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Syed Yusuf Hossain made the announcement at a press briefing [...]
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Bangladesh will follow a formula for adjusting tariff from time to time for power import from India, instead of fixing a permanent rate. A power purchase agreement (PPA) to be signed between Dhaka and New Delhi will provide for this. The cabinet committee on economic affairs yesterday approved the PPA at a meeting chaired by [...]
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Bangladesh needs up to 1.5 million new jobs each year for the next 20 years to accelerate economic growth, says the World Bank. Bangladesh along with other South Asian nations has seen steady job growth and a substantial decrease in poverty over the past three decades, according to a WB report. The WB yesterday launched [...]
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Bangladesh will propose to install joint venture (JV) power projects in North-Eastern states of India, a top official of the Power Division said. “We will propose to install JV power projects in India during the two-day bilateral meeting with the India, starting on Monday in New Delhi,” Power Division Secretary Md Abul Kalam Azad told [...]
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Aminul Islam Akanda System dynamics of non-sustainability of modern society due to depletion of resources is analysed in a famous book, ‘The Limits to Growth,’ published by the Universe Books in 1972. It shows how the output growth is related to the availability of resources. Both the food and industrial output of the [...]
Continue reading …Summit signs deals with GEC, CNEEC Thursday‘Three power plants to generate electricity by June 2013
February 14, 2012 1 Comment
Shamim Jahangir Local power giant Summit Group is going to make separate deals with US-based General Electric Company (GEC) and a Chinese CNEEC and NEPC Consortium on next Thursday to install three mega power plants with generation capacity of 1017 megawatts (MW) of electricity by June next year. Power Division officials, however, are skeptical [...]
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In an increasing sign of collaboration in the power sector ‘Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh’ (EGCB) has signed an agreement Tuesday with India’s largest power generator NTPC for supplying operation and maintenance services for the country’s two 120 megawatt gas-based peaking power plants located at Shiddhirganj. NTPC additional general manager AN Mishra and EGCB’s secretary [...]
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Though both Bangladeshi and Indian power ministry officials are expecting to sign a final deal on electricity import, the tariff and other issues are yet to be sorted out. According to official sources, a high-level delegation from Bangladesh visited New Delhi early this month to settle the tariff and some relevant issues. “The issues couldn’t [...]
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