KHULNA, Feb 6, 2020 (BSS)- Bangladesh Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) of Dumuria upazila is being implemented eight targets to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
As part of the Mujib Year celebration programme, the PBS of Dumuria
upazila has completed the initiatives to ensure 100 percent electricity
coverage in its all villages, said a PBS official here today.
The PBS has set eight targets in order to provide improved and quality
services to the users and create skilled manpower in the rural areas, he
said.
“We have already set eight targets to mark the Bangabandhu’s birth
centenary which will be celebrated as ‘Mujib Barsho’ and we’ll observe it as
service year,” Deputy General Manager (DGM) of PBS in Dumuria Zonal office Md
Abdul Matin said on Wednesday.
The targets are: ensuring 100 percent electricity coverage, continuation
of ‘Alor Feriwala’, a programme to resolve customer harassment to connect
electricity, ensuring uninterrupted power supply and implementing ‘Amar Gram
Amar Shohor’ programme, to enforce ‘zero tolerance’ policy against
corruption, introducing ‘paperless office’ to build ‘Digital Bangladesh’,
establishing eco-friendly Solar Irrigation Pumps, improving the strength of
youth and enrichment of Bangladesh to develop skilled manpower through
training.
PBS has already made 60 youth skilled manpower from different villages of
the Dumuria upazila through training in last two month, he said, adding “We
want to improve rural life by efficient supply of electricity. That’s why the
targets have been taken up… Under the project, opportunities will be
created for huge kinds of electricity-based small businesses like agro-
processing industry, small scale local garments, automated rice husking, fish
storage, repair and maintenance of electrical equipments.”
“In the last five years, a total of 85,000 subscribers have been brought
under the electricity coverage of the upazila,” said the PBS official.
The Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) has given instructions
to the respective authorities to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity
as part of the Mujib Year celebration.
DGM Matin also said that the government has undertaken various projects in
different terms aimed at implementing the initiatives to supply electricity
to each house by 2021.