City Desk :
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury Bir Bikrom expressed the hope that the existing power crisis will ease in the country by next September if all become frugal in the use of electricity.
“The Russia-Ukraine war has created energy and power crisis in the country. This crisis has also occurred in other countries like Japan, Germany and Australia,” he told a press conference on Thursday after a meeting on the power and gas situation across the country at the meeting room of the Prime Minister’s Office .
The adviser said the use of air-conditioner (AC) in markets, shopping malls, mosques, offices and courts should be reduced to save electricity. The temperature of the AC should not be kept below 25 degrees, he added, reports BSS.
He suggested reducing office hours, saying that this will save a lot of electricity,
“The current situation is like a war. If we all work together, we will be able to overcome it,” he said and mentioned that the Prime Minister has asked everyone to be economical in electricity use for this reason.
