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Serious power supply crisis in Pabna, industries hard hit

From Our Correspondent
PABNA. Oct 3: Supply of electricity throughout the district of Pabna. specially in Pabna town, is inadequate resulting in frequent power disruption .
The supply remain disrupted for eight to ten hours without any prior notice to the consumers.
Miseries of people in this northern town became so much acute that they cannot perform their normal work both during day-time and also during the night. .Students, including the examinees, cannot study. Emergency operations in the hospitals and clinics become quite Impossible. Mills and factories either being compelled to stop production or resort to retrenchment of their staff and workers.
The traders and merchants of Pabna town, finding the situation quite Insecure for them, are compelled, in many cases. Io close their shops shortly
after sunset. Even smaller number of pedestrians are found to move in the town areas after sunsets. Women are hardly found pn the townstreets after subset.
'People are being complied lo purchase dynamo etc. as alternative means to keep their business running and unaffected due to lack of power-supply.
This situation, which became chronic and has been continuing lor years together.
is also causing severe loss to the industrial units. New entrepreneurs are little attracted towards investing capital in industrial sector. The industrialists of Pabna. "both individually and collectively. submitted memo to the local and external authorities of the PDB held meeting with them at different places, obtained numbers of assurances but virtually to no effect.
ft is also very much surprising that when, during the nights, starting from evening, the town plunges into severe darkness, police also does not come forward to save the people from hands of criminals by way of Intensifying police patrols.
Cinema halls have also been badly affected. Although all the cinema hall, owners have already made alternative arrangements by procuring their own dynamos, number of cinema-goers has fallen Abnormally as the .town-streets remains dark.
People in their houses and residential quarters also feel quite unsafe. Even the male members hardly go out and remain Inside their respective houses keeping all the doors and windows tightly closed.
The irregular supply of electricity has again caused another acute problem for the town-dwellers. Water-supply goes off due to such frequent power breakdown and it is alleged that the authorities of Water Supply Department under the Pabna Pourashabha have arranged water-supply for orily three and four hours a day in different localities of the town.