Power & Energy - জাগরী

Do you think that government has made substantial progress in the area of Power & Energy?

	Strongly Agree
	Agreed
	Disagree
	Strongly Disagree

Legend

↑ Government is keeping focus on a promise through rhetoric only.

↑↑ Government has taken a concrete step (allocating finances/formulating policy) towards implementing a promise or in furthering the nation in a specific manifesto area.

↑↑↑ A step taken by a government previously has led to sizable output in a specific area of the manifesto's scope.

↑↑↑↑ An output of nationwide significance, jubilation and/or appreciation has taken place as a result of a government step.

↔ Government actions are ambiguous in a way which does not show their commitment either for or against fulfillment of a manifesto promise.

↑↓ The action has the potential to be either positive or negative and is hard to judge immediately.

↓ Government is not keeping focus on a promise even through rhetoric

↓↓ Government has taken a concrete step (finances/ policy) which will hinder implementation of a promise or will cause the nation to go backward in a specific manifesto area.

↓↓↓ A negative step taken by a government previously has led to significant outcome which is contradictory to the agenda in a specific area of the manifesto.

↓↓↓↓ An output of nationwide public outcry, grievance or mourning which has taken place as a result of a government step.

Jagorometer Team

Maya, Ritu, Mahrukh, Munia, Shahnila, Priyanka, Mridul, Rubayat, Ashik, Ismail, Sanjan, & Rain

The pledges made under power & energy, if fulfilled, will position Bangladesh to better compete in the world of commerce and industry, ensure sustainable economic growth and contribute towards poverty reduction. The short-fall in electricity generation has been a long-standing problem with industrial output, agricultural irrigation and urban dwellers being worse affected. Although the electricity generated by the State is supplied to only one quarter of all households, limited to urban areas and industry is single largest consumer, the government has identified the short-fall as the single biggest bottleneck to development across all sectors. This pledge has stimulated much debate within the public sphere in particular with the discovery of gas pockets in the Bay of Bengal and large deposits of coal in northern Bangladesh which, at first, has the potential to solve the energy crisis and secondly, provide Bangladesh with the energy security which will improve the potentiality to negotiate better terms of trade with the rest of the world. The successes under this pledge will go in some way to determine the successes of the government regardless of achievements in other areas of governance.

THE PROMISES

POWER & ENERGY

1. A comprehensive long term policy on electricity and energy will be adopted.

2. Arranging 100/150 megawatt gas turbine projects on urgent basis

3. Reactivation of the past AL initiatives for constructing 10, 20 and 30 megawatt power stations

4.. Old power stations will be repaired and reactivated

5. Rooppur Nuclear Power Project will be implemented

6. By 2011 power production will be increased to 5000 megawatt and by 2013 it will be further increased to 7000 megawatt

7. Coal Policy will be formulated

8. Arrangements will be made to supply gas to the northern and western part of the country

9. Related to pledge without direct correlation to any of the above pledges

Power & Energy

Disclaimers

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