Meet electricity demand soon
Speakers urge govt
Ensuring access to electricity of the poor could greatly help reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals, said speakers at a discussion yesterday, calling for immediate steps to meet the nation's energy demand.
"Those living in the urban areas are lucky to have easy access to power but many rural people don't have such facilities even to cook," said Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury.
He was speaking as the chief guest at the launching of a report titled "Poor Peoples' Energy Outlook 2010", organised by Practical Action, a UK-based non-government organisation, at the National Academy for Educational Management (NAEM) in the capital.
Addition Secretary Taposh Kumar Roy of Power Division said they would send a proposal to introduce a Sustainable Energy Development Authority in the cabinet within a week.
Practical Action Bangladesh's Country Director Veena Khaleque also spoke at the programme, which was part of the NGO's second National Knowledge Convention.
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