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Govt-varsity partnership vital to carry out research

Energy adviser tells Buet seminar

Staff Correspondent
Power and Energy Adviser to Prime Minister Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury yesterday said the government wants to create strong collaboration with universities in a bid to carry out researches and use them in solving national problems.
In other countries, public administration or agencies keep close collaboration with the universities which is not seen in the case of Bangladesh, he said, stressing the need for the government-university partnership.
Tawfiq was addressing a seminar on power crisis in Bangladesh organised by the department of Electric and Electronics Engineering (EEE) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) at the closing session of the four-day EEE Undergraduate Project Workshop-2009 on its campus.
"The concerned government department can sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Buet for all-time collaboration. We want to help the graduate or undergraduate students for researches," he said, lauding various projects of Buet students.
The students could be provided with financial assistance and recognition so that their innovations could be applied to solve the national problems, the adviser noted.
"1 would call on Buet to concentrate on finding ways to increase energy efficiency, conservation and cut carbon emissions," Tawfiq said, adding that the country can also get carbon credit by cutting emissions.
Conserving one megawatt (MW) electricity is more important than generating it, he said, adding that keeping the fact in mind, the government decided to distribute energy-saving bulbs free of cost.
Power Development Board Chairman ASM Alamgir Kabir said the government has planned to put an end to load-shedding by 2010 and ensure electricity for all by 2020. Presently, only six crore out of 14 crore people have access to electricity.
The country has a shortage of 1300MW to 1500MW power, but the government will meet the demand. At least 717MW will be added by next December while the rest to be added from rental power plants and peaking plants by 2010, he observed.
Prof S Shahnwaz Ahmed said interconnections between the neighbouring countries like India, Nepal and Bhutan for power transfer and resource sharing could improve economic efficiency in system operation, reduced climate impacts and lower costs to consumers.
Stating that the available generation capacity of Bangladesh Power System fails to meet its demand up to 43.6 percent, Prof Quamrul Ahsan said expansion of generation capacity is a solution to meet the growing demand and reduce un-served energy.
Buet Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AMM Shafiullah, Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof M Habibur Rahman and Abdul Matin Khasru MP ^Isospoke ' '