Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday declared Bangladesh as a country of providing 100 percent electricity coverage by inaugurating the 1320MW Payra Thermal Power Plant in Patuakhali.
With the declaration, Bangladesh has become the first country of South Asia to provide 100 percent electricity coverage.
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid told the Daily Sun that the electricity generation has increased fivefold to 25,514MW in the last thirteen years.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s courage to make the power sector ‘a driving force’ of the country’s economy has made it possible.
