Setting up permanent power plants
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This vital matter was very rightly taken up in a front page news report published in a local English daily on December 29th. It is a cause for worry, that no prompt positive action is being taken to expedite the important matter of issuing letter of intent and sign the agreement for setting up four already government approved power plants. As stated in the report, Summit Group and GE Energy &Associates have been selected by the cabinet committee for purchase, to set up three power plants for generating 1350MW of power, while a Malaysian Group is to set up one rated at 150 to 225 MW in Bhola. The signing of the agreements and issue of work order is stalled over the last six months! The files on this subject is lying somewhere in the bottomless government bureaucracy! Meanwhile people suffer daily with short supply of much needed electric power, effecting both urban and rural areas. What happened to the government's pre-election commitment that rapid action on power capacity expansion will be taken? Surely the suffering public deserves an answer from the elected government for this delay in signing the contract. Is it not possible to have the contract signed within January 2011? Will the authorities kindly clarify this important public matter?
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