UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Monday said that the government will promote new ideas and research works in power and energy sector to improve technological efficiency.
He made the remarks while addressing a seminar on “The Role of EPRC in Promoting Applied Research and the Benefits Derived by the Industry and Universities” at
Bidduyt Bhaban in the city. Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council (EPRC), a new body under the Power and Energy Ministry, arranged the seminar with its chairman Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury in the chair.
Three engineers were given certificates at the function for their innovative ideas for efficiency of power generation and electricity use. Dr. Arshad Mansoor, an expatriate Bangladeshi and senior vice president of Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) of USA, made a keynote speech at the function while power secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus also spoke on the occasion.
Explaining the government’s plan with floating the new organisation, the Energy Advisor said now the government wants to bring technological efficiency in power and energy sector after a massive development in the sector.
“We need to create efficient manpower and use best technology to run the sector efficiently. We have to move for brining solution to the existing as well as future problems with our own innovation,” he told the seminar.
Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Monday said that the government will promote new ideas and research works in power and energy sector to improve technological efficiency.
He made the remarks while addressing a seminar on “The Role of EPRC in Promoting Applied Research and the Benefits Derived by the Industry and Universities” at
Bidduyt Bhaban in the city. Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council (EPRC), a new body under the Power and Energy Ministry, arranged the seminar with its chairman Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury in the chair.
Three engineers were given certificates at the function for their innovative ideas for efficiency of power generation and electricity use. Dr. Arshad Mansoor, an expatriate Bangladeshi and senior vice president of Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) of USA, made a keynote speech at the function while power secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus also spoke on the occasion.
Explaining the government’s plan with floating the new organisation, the Energy Advisor said now the government wants to bring technological efficiency in power and energy sector after a massive development in the sector.
“We need to create efficient manpower and use best technology to run the sector efficiently. We have to move for brining solution to the existing as well as future problems with our own innovation,” he told the seminar.
