UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser DrTawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Wednesday urged the journalists to refrain from criticising the government for the next two months.
“Please keep your criticisms of the government on hold for the next two months and extend your support to the government so that it can come to power again,” he said while addressing a press conference at Biduyt Bhaban in the city on Wednesday.
The Power and Energy Ministry arranged the press conference to brief about eight projects which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate today through a videoconference from her office.
Of the eight projects in the power and energy
sector, seven have already gone into operation while the foundation of one project will be laid today.
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid, power secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus, Energy Secretary Abu Hena Rahmatul Munim, PDB Chairman Khaled Mahmud and Rural Electrification Board Chairman Moin Uddin were present at the briefing.
Dr Tawfiq Elahi said, the ongoing development will not continue if the current government does not come to power again.
He said all the development in power and energy sector have been possible because of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visionary leadership. “We never saw such leadership in the past and we don’t know when the country will again get such leadership like Sheikh Hasina,” he added.
State Minister Nasrul Hamid claimed that the 94 percent people of the country have got access to electricity , but he admitted that many places of the country do not get uninterrupted and quality supply of electricity as there is weakness in the transmission and distribution systems.
“We cannot expect uninterrupted and quality electricity soon after getting the electricity connections. We have to wait for two years….we’re working on it,” Nasrul said.
Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser DrTawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Wednesday urged the journalists to refrain from criticising the government for the next two months.
“Please keep your criticisms of the government on hold for the next two months and extend your support to the government so that it can come to power again,” he said while addressing a press conference at Biduyt Bhaban in the city on Wednesday.
The Power and Energy Ministry arranged the press conference to brief about eight projects which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate today through a videoconference from her office.
Of the eight projects in the power and energy
sector, seven have already gone into operation while the foundation of one project will be laid today.
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid, power secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus, Energy Secretary Abu Hena Rahmatul Munim, PDB Chairman Khaled Mahmud and Rural Electrification Board Chairman Moin Uddin were present at the briefing.
Dr Tawfiq Elahi said, the ongoing development will not continue if the current government does not come to power again.
He said all the development in power and energy sector have been possible because of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visionary leadership. “We never saw such leadership in the past and we don’t know when the country will again get such leadership like Sheikh Hasina,” he added.
State Minister Nasrul Hamid claimed that the 94 percent people of the country have got access to electricity , but he admitted that many places of the country do not get uninterrupted and quality supply of electricity as there is weakness in the transmission and distribution systems.
“We cannot expect uninterrupted and quality electricity soon after getting the electricity connections. We have to wait for two years….we’re working on it,” Nasrul said.
