State Minister for Power and Energy Shamsul Hoq Tuku yesterday said that the government is unable to fulfil its election manifesto pledge without adequate electricity production.
"Without electricity, our pledge for change will not be implemented," he said a conference at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre. The Centre For Policy and Dialogue (CPD) organised the conference.
For additional electricity production, it is urgent need to extract coal and exploration of gas, the Minister said.
"We are extracting coal, but we have no policy on how to use this coal," he said. "We must finalise the policy first with consultation of the experts and public, and then decide on mining."
FBCCI President Annisul Huq said Power failure rate up 10 percent of factory production. "We do not have electricity 20 to 25 per cent of working hour."
He called upon the government to withdraw the licence tax for captive power and immediate decision on rental power plant for reducing energy crisis. He said that the businessmen are ready to provide financial support to strengthen BAPEX for gas exploration.
BUET Prof Nurul Islam said that the draft of a coal policy was submitted to the ministry at least eight times, but the ministry refused to work on it and finalise it. About the corruption in energy sector, he said, "Asia energy is so powerful that corruption of Asia energy was not investigated by the Anti-Corruption Commission. This was apparently done to protect the interests of Asia energy," he said.
In his keynote paper, former Power Division Secretary M Fouzul Kabir Khan said we should stop blame game and national consensus is must for energy security in the country.
He recommended finalising the coal policy and passing energy conservation act as a policy and institutional reform in energy sector. The former secretary informed that the government supply only 1,830mmcfd of gas against the demand of 2,095mmcfd.
CUET Prof M Shamsul Islam said some private entrepreneurs in power sector earned huge money in the name of power generation. Eng Sheikh Mohammed Sahidullah said that it is no need to produce coal by open pit method.
"It will be able to meet our demand for coal by extracting under ground mining," he said.
Imran Ahmed MP, BIDS research director Dr. Assaduzzman, former PDB Chairman Shamsul Islam, Dhaka University Prof Dr. Hussain Monsur, former Power Cell Director General BD Rahmatullah, former atomic energy commission Chairman Shafiqul Islam also addressed at the conference, titled 'Energy Sector: Challenges of Adding New Capacity'. Syed Manzur Elahi, a trustee member of CPD chaired the session.
"Without electricity, our pledge for change will not be implemented," he said a conference at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre. The Centre For Policy and Dialogue (CPD) organised the conference.
For additional electricity production, it is urgent need to extract coal and exploration of gas, the Minister said.
"We are extracting coal, but we have no policy on how to use this coal," he said. "We must finalise the policy first with consultation of the experts and public, and then decide on mining."
FBCCI President Annisul Huq said Power failure rate up 10 percent of factory production. "We do not have electricity 20 to 25 per cent of working hour."
He called upon the government to withdraw the licence tax for captive power and immediate decision on rental power plant for reducing energy crisis. He said that the businessmen are ready to provide financial support to strengthen BAPEX for gas exploration.
BUET Prof Nurul Islam said that the draft of a coal policy was submitted to the ministry at least eight times, but the ministry refused to work on it and finalise it. About the corruption in energy sector, he said, "Asia energy is so powerful that corruption of Asia energy was not investigated by the Anti-Corruption Commission. This was apparently done to protect the interests of Asia energy," he said.
In his keynote paper, former Power Division Secretary M Fouzul Kabir Khan said we should stop blame game and national consensus is must for energy security in the country.
He recommended finalising the coal policy and passing energy conservation act as a policy and institutional reform in energy sector. The former secretary informed that the government supply only 1,830mmcfd of gas against the demand of 2,095mmcfd.
CUET Prof M Shamsul Islam said some private entrepreneurs in power sector earned huge money in the name of power generation. Eng Sheikh Mohammed Sahidullah said that it is no need to produce coal by open pit method.
"It will be able to meet our demand for coal by extracting under ground mining," he said.
Imran Ahmed MP, BIDS research director Dr. Assaduzzman, former PDB Chairman Shamsul Islam, Dhaka University Prof Dr. Hussain Monsur, former Power Cell Director General BD Rahmatullah, former atomic energy commission Chairman Shafiqul Islam also addressed at the conference, titled 'Energy Sector: Challenges of Adding New Capacity'. Syed Manzur Elahi, a trustee member of CPD chaired the session.
Source : The New Nation, Bangladesh
Date :30.03.2009
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