The government expects to bring the entire rural population under electricity coverage by the end of the year, says State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid.
Responding to queries from lawmakers in parliament on Thursday, he said that 90 percent villages were now under power coverage.
“Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (REB) has already brought 90 percent villages under power coverage. Works are for bringing the rest are underway,” he said.
Replying to another question from reserved seat member Safura Begum, Nasrul said that the government has undertaken various projects in different terms aimed at implementing “Sheikh Hasina’s initiatives supply power to every house” by 2021, reports BSS.
“The power generation capacity has already reached to 18,353 MW and the government has fixed its target to increase electricity generation capacity to 24,000 MW by 2021,”
He said the government has also undertaken different projects to improve the capacity of distribution and transmission line compared to power generation.
Presently, distribution line increased to 450,000 kilometres, transmission 11,060 circuit kilometre and capacity of the grid substation reached to 35,040 MVA, the state minister added.
“We have a plan to increase the capacity of distribution and transmission line into twice as part of the 100 percent electrification by 2021,” he said.