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Load-shedding cripples normal life at Kamalganj 

Published : Wednesday, 18 September, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 126
Our Correspondent
KAMALGANJ, MOULVIBAZAR, Sept 17: Unabated load-shedding is killing economic time, hampering tea estate works and vitiating normal life in Kamalganj Upazila of the district. 

According to local sources, the disgusting load-shedding has been continuing in the upazila for the last one week. 

In tandem with severe warming, the load-shedding misery is mounting up, crippling the life of general people and day-earners mostly. 

At present, people are undergoing troubles of 9-10 hour load-shedding in 24 hours. 

Warming and load-shedding are prevailing in entire Sylhet Division having 92 government and private tea estates. Their production is hampered.

Production in tea garden and factories is hampered; educational activities, hospital services, private clinics, banking activities, general businesses, poultry and fisheries are halted.  

Mainly children and adult people are suffering critically. Students are affected by different cold diseases.

Business photo-copier machines, household TV, freeze, computers and other electricity-run things are getting damaged. Internet service is badly hampered.

According to sources at the Palli Bidyut  Samity-Kamalganj, the electricity demand is 19 megawatt (mw) in the upazila for 82,000 subscribers; but only 13mw is supplied.

A subscriber Abdur Razzak Raja said, "We are facing 9-10 times of electricity outage; each time it continues for hours; our children can't study amid warming; electricity is not available in school; due to sweating, they have developed coughing. We want to get rid of it."

Another Popi Aktar Doli said, "Our old parents are turning sick; electricity outage occurs at late night; nobody can sleep at night properly. We want to overcome such situation."

A bank officer Masum said, "Excessive load-shedding is hampering clients' services. We are providing services through generator."

Manager of Patrakhola Tea Garden of National Tea Company-Kamalganj  Dipon  Singh said, it cannot be possible to keep quality of tea leaf due to frequent load-shedding; besides are machines are threatened; it takes at least half an hour for re-starting a machine for the electricity outage.

"To keep the usual production, we are using generator, increasing the production cost," he added.

Deputy General Manager of the Palli Bidyut (Kamalganj Zonal Office) Golam Faruq Mir said, "The supply is much less than demand; that is why load-shedding is maintained. We are discussing with the authorities concerned in this regard. We hope all problems will be solved shortly."

Sub-Assistant Engineer of the Electricity Sale and Distribution Department-Sylhet Md Abu Hossain said, "An internal meeting was held on the present scenario of electricity in Sylhet. The matter will be informed to the authority concerned. We hope a solution soon."



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