Also, almost 80 percent of the people have confidence in power system development plan undertaken by the government, finds the survey conducted with the support by the Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council. In the survey, only 5.6 percent respondents said they were not satisfied with development measures taken by the government while 14.7 percent said they were 'not sure.' According to the findings, a total of 11.2 percent respondents said they were 'very satisfied', 48.8 percent 'satisfied' and 29.9 percent 'somewhat satisfied'. "The purpose of the survey was to understand the people's perception about the government’s initiative on the development of power sector," he said. Since 2009, a total of 9,254 MW electricity has been added to the national grid with additional 87 new plants raising the power generation to over 16,000 MW.

Source: bd News24 January 22, 2018 15:11 UTC