More 11000 REB connections in Netrakona this year

The REB has 55,510 subscribers now, 41,219 of them residential and 9,080 commercial. Besides, it supplied power to 3,062 irrigation pumps in the district, General Manager of the Samity M Muklesh Gani told its conference here recently.

A total of 1092 villages out of 2111 in Netrakona district have been brought under power supply network by the Samity.

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To expand the service in rural areas, the Samity has started work to set up more 100 kilometres supply lines and a sub-station at cost of Tk 10 crore, he said.