Staff Reporter

The government had incurred about Tk 23,000 crore loss in the past ten years in the power sector due to corruption by which it could have established power plants capable of producing at least 9,500 MW electricity.
In the fiscal year 2005-06 the government had lost about Tk 10,600 crore for production loss as they have no gas based power plant.
By reducing the technical and distribution loss up to 15 per cent the Government could earn at least Tk 1,853 crore extra and the Government would not have to increase the price of electricity. [Read more]