Regular load-shedding
Load-shedding is now a hackneyed subject.
I experienced the worst of it in my village under Dohar Police Station, merely 48 kilo meters away from Dhaka, where I made a sojourn after my return from long stay abroad. I was rather amazed to see the improvements made in the rural communication infrastructure, with many culverts and bridges over brooks and rivers, easing the movements of village folks; a revolutionary change in the way of villagers' living, indeed.
One would definitely love to stay in or make regular visits to village home. But that is shattered by one thing, the awfully persistent, erratic load-shedding. That makes your 'sweet home' a sour one. We have never seen or heard of such frequency of outage which woefully deprives the people of living a modern life. It is a real torture when you cannot retire to your bed at ten or eleven for the 'current failure' (the people commonly call it so).
I, therefore, had to move to Dhaka leaving my 'sweet and sour home'. Due to this inordinately scant and willy-nilly supply of electricity there has been a growth of private business houses of generator produced electricity and the well-off families are buying their comforts from them. But what about others?
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