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Frequent power disruptions make life miserable

By Staff Correspondent
The country’s power situation worsened further yesterday due to high demand fuelled by hot and humid weather.
The city dwellers are facing acute shortage of water due to frequent power disruptions. "We can’t even pump water from basement tank due to frequent power failures." a resident at the New Elephant Road said
"Life has become miserable as electricity goes off several
times for several hours every day."
Situation was almost simi-lar In Uttara where electricity went off as many as three times In the morning alone, said another resident of the area
Production in mills and factories also suffered tremendously. Large number of the city areas plunged Into darkness last night due to power outage. The Dally Star office at Kawran
Bazar also faced power failure five times yesterday.
Sabnam Rahman, a housewife at Tongi residential area, told the Dally Star over telephone that electricity supply failed four to five times In the whole area since evening.
A Mohammadpur resident said that power failure lasts at least for three hours every day In his area. Residents of Mug-
dapara complained that on average power goes off six to sever times a day.
Ruhul Amin, a former general manager of Bangladesh Bank, said even when power supply resumes at night the voltage is low. "Many TV sets and fridge in the area have gom out of order due to sudden fluctuation in voltage." he added
A resident at Banani said power situation has been worst in the last two weeks.
DESA officials however claimed that there was only 34 megawatt of load shedding in metropolis yesterday.
"The situation was better as we could get 980 megawatt power from the PDB against oui demand of over 1 00C megawatt." said an official.
He however admitted thal power supply was disrupted severely outside Dhaka city because of "rise in frequency.' Power supply from four sub-stations remained suspended last night due to overloading that caused breakdown in I 1 KV line.
The sub-stations are at Mlrkadim. ModanganJ. Nars-ingdi and Sripur.
The PDB control room said power generation was 2600 megawatt last night and the shortfall across the country was 175 megawatt The total demand was estimated to be 2775 megawatt for the whole country’.
Power generation in nine plants was remained suspended due to mechanical problems. The plants are. Rouzan-2. Syl-het Gas Turbine. Shahaji Bazar-3. Fcnshuganj Gas Turbine-2 and Fenchuganj steam. Ashuganj-2, Khulna Barge Mounted-1 Rangpur Gas Turbine and Ghorashal-5.