Relentless load shedding

Rafi Abdullah, North South University, Dhaka

Photo: STAR

The government, as we all know, has taken some prudent steps to improve the power situation. Ironically, nowadays it seems all those efforts are just gimmicks to misguide the citizens into believing that the situation is getting better. The scorching heat, with the added predicament of massive power failures, has rendered the lives of the people unbearable. People are trying to fathom what all those apparently substantial steps are providing us with. All our efforts to understand the enigma end in futility. We all expected a better power situation through all those efforts. But now it seems that no efforts were made whatsoever. They were just machinations to garner Forex.