PM opens nat’l data centre, 3 other dev projects

block
UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday opened four newly-completed development projects, including the installation of solar panels in CHT’s remote areas and national data centre in Kaliakair and commissioning of five ships and one survey vessel for the Kaptai Lake.
She launched the development projects through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganobhaban.
Opening the development schemes, the Prime Minister said the development journey of Bangladesh will continue. “Our progress will continue.”
Under the Power Supply through Installation of
 Solar Panels in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Remote Areas Project, some 10,890 families of 1,927 villages in 26 upazilas of the three hill districts-Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban-came under the electricity coverage.
The project was implemented in the villages as it will not be possible to supply electricity there from the national grid for the next 20-25 years, said CHT Affairs Secretary Md Mesbahul Islam in his presentation.
Opening the solar power system, the Prime Minister said instability had started in the CHT area following the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, but her government restored peace through signing the CHT Peace Accord 1997. She said her government started massive development activities in the CHT areas and installation of power panels in the remote areas where it would not be possible to provide electricity connection from the national grid. “No house and market will remain in the dark,” Hasina said.
The Prime Minister commissioned the ‘CVASU Research Vessel’ made at the initiative of Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Science University (CVASU) to conduct study over fish and other species in the Kaptai Lake in Rangamati.
block